The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
Interpretation
Crime prevention is rooted in nurturing and upbringing rather than punishment.
J. Edgar Hoover's quote emphasizes that addressing the root causes of crime involves focusing on early childhood development and education rather than solely relying on punitive measures like the electric chair. It suggests that societal change begins with how we raise and educate our children, implying that a supportive and nurturing environment can diminish criminal behavior.
In practice
This quote can be used in a community meeting discussing youth programs for crime prevention.
However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between Him and ourselves. Thus the prophets frequently hint at the existence of a partition between God and us.
However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their innocent eyes; they tell us not of eternal peace alone, of that great peace of "indifferent" nature: they tell us, too, of eternal reconciliation and of life without end.
Who would you be without your story?
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.
When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.
I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large.
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