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“If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be shared by all; the sciences will be on a smaller scale but ignorance will be less common; opinions will be less vigorous and habits gentler; you will notice more vices and fewer crimes.”

Ifs Pleasure Common Opinion Crime Ignorance Habit Democratic Vices Scales Fewer Display Brilliance Outrageous Wellbeing Vigorous Aristocracy Democratic Society Wretchedness

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.”

“A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and disestablish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate personal habits, and to censor opinions. The modern state claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and Democrats.”

Source: A Preface to Morals

“... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.”

Firsts Crime Habit Murder

Author:Albert Camus

“There's a very complex connection between crime and addiction, because a lot of people are committing crime to either fuel their drug habit, which they're going to do anyway, whether it's legal or not, or under the influence of drugs, which they're going to do more, if it's legal.”

People Ifs Influence Crime Habit Drug Connections Complexes Addiction Fuel Committing Crimes

Author:Kevin Sabet

“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”

Children Self Done Passion Evil Parent Subjects Crime Habit Prejudice Misery Parenting Tendencies Your Children Reasoning Patriotic Educate Self Control Abolish Crimes Of Passion

Author:Benjamin Franklin