Crime and bad lives are
“Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.”
– H. G. Wells
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- “The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.” – W. E. B. Du Bois
- ‘Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.’ – Bruce Lee
- War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. – Alfred Adler
- “The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.” – Stephen Richards
- Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. – Marian Wright Edelman
- Not failure, but low aim, is crime. – James Russell Lowell
- Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure. – Ambrose Bierce
- Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure. – Ambrose Bierce
- Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability. – Polly Toynbee
- We’re so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives – on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community. – Carl Honore