“It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet.” IfsNeedsStudyCrimeFlowerDevelopmentAreasGardenVictimGreenPlantRatePsychologicalTortureProvenEnd TimesSpend TimePsychological Development Author:Jane Goodall
“I always thought what an interesting idea because almost everybody's fascinated by the perpetrator of a crime; very few people study what happens to people for the rest of their lives, and how it affects not only that particular character but other characters around him as well.” PeopleWellsIdeasCharacterHappensInterestingStudyCrimeParticularFascinatedPerpetratorsInteresting Ideas Author:Clint Eastwood
“Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.” HumansHeartKindSufferingSocialPleasureVirtueStudySocietyInfluenceCrimeDutyDisciplineMetsActivityDifficultyGuiltActiveBehaveGenerousSpheresRestraintImprovingHuman HeartInclinationActive Life Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes ... Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes ...
“no study has brought out any solid evidence that the death penalty deters crime. In fact, Amnesty reports that 'the murder rate in states which use the death penalty is twice that of states which do not, according to FBI statistics.” StatesFactsUseStudyCrimeEvidenceMurderRateReportsStatisticsPenaltiesDeath PenaltyFbiAmnesty Book:Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty Source: Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty
“Mediocre people often have a tinge of religion about them, but it is only a tinge. They take their religion as it comes. They may pray and worship more or less regularly, and they usually stay clear of publicly disgraceful crimes, but they are lukewarm, colorless. Seldom or never do they read a serious book about prayer or study to learn more about God and His plans, to discover how to be humble and chaste and patient. They are always too busy for the one thing necessary.” PeopleMayBookPrayerStudyClearPlansOne ThingCrimeSeriousPrayingWorshipPatientBusyHumbleMediocreToo BusyBe HumbleChasteDisgracefulLukewarmColorless Author:Thomas Dubay
“A range of studies shows there is no evidence immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans. In fact, first generation immigrants are predisposed to lower crime rates than native-born Americans. The two cities in this country most impacted by undocumented immigrants, you would think of the New York City with over 500,000 and Los Angeles, with a similar amount. Both those cities are among the safest in the free world.” ThinkingWorldFirstsTwoCountryFactsShowsBornCitiesStudyGenerationsCrimeNew YorkAmountEvidenceRateCommitRangeNativeImmigrantsLos AngelesNew York CityFree WorldOver 50Crime RatesUndocumented Immigrants Author:Geraldo Rivera
“The longer I live, the longer I realize that batting is more a mental matter than it is physical. The ability to grasp the bat, swing at the proper time, take a proper stance; all these are elemental. Batting is rather a study in psychology, a sizing up of a pitcher and catcher and observing little details that are of immense importance. It's like the study of crime, the work of a detective as he picks up clues.” LittlesMatterRealizingAbilityStudyPsychologyCrimePicksImportanceDetailsSwingsImmenseBatsClueObservingDetectivesPitcherStanceElementalsBattingCatchersProper Time Author:Ty Cobb
“Studies show that people who abuse animals are far more likely to engage in interpersonal violence. Violent crime rates tend to be higher in areas where slaughterhouses are related, even when controlling for other variables.” PeopleShowsAnimalStudyViolenceCrimeHigherAreasAbuseRateViolentRelatedVariablesSlaughterhousesInterpersonalViolent CrimesCrime Rates Author:Jonathan Balcombe
“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.” IfsMindBelieveWholeWantedFacesPoliticalValuesLeftReligiousChristianityStudyModernCrimeNeededEvidenceScientistFunctionFilledWesternAcceptedEducatedPropagandaExplanationCriticizeDeclineSuperstitionsSecularAccustomedReligious FaithVacuumsCredulityZealotFace ValueEvaporation Author:Paul Johnson
“The perfect crime is when you push someone to suicide. I once read a study that said everyone in the course of their life has thought of killing someone.” SaidCoursesPerfectStudyCrimeSuicideKillingKilling SomeonePerfect Crime Author:Claude Lelouch