‘It’s a tipping point going the wrong way.’

Peter Scharf, a criminologist at Louisiana State University’s School of Public Health, on the increase in the nation’s homicide rate. The FBI on Sept. 26 reported that the nation’s murder rate increased 10.8 percent in 2015, with Louisiana having the highest murder rate in the nation.

‘We are practically working for free.’

An oil industry worker in Venezuela, quoted in The New York Times. Oil production is plummeting amid the socialist nation’s economic crisis, and inflation has brought oil workers’ wages down to less than a dollar per day.

‘He’d say, “You were born into freedom. You don’t understand freedom, really.”’

Miami Marlins president David Samson on Marlins ace pitcher José Fernández, who escaped Cuba and became a U.S. citizen before his death in a boating accident on Sept. 25.

‘A Fashion Queen mannequin is taller than the average British man, but with the waist of a 10-year-old girl.’

M.G. Zimeta, writing in the London Review of Books on the unrealistic size of female mannequins in John Lewis, a London department store chain. The mannequins measure 6 feet 1 inch in height and have a 23-inch waist.

‘I have thirty years’ worth of those clothes at home. Wish I’d known I could bring them here and make money.’

An unidentified sanitation worker, quoted on the website acculturated.com, on Heron Preston’s new clothing line made up of recycled pieces of sanitation worker uniforms.

POLICE: Scott Olson/Getty Images • Venezuela: RAMON SAHMKOW/AFP/Getty Images • samson: Lynne Sladky/ap • mannequins: Brenna Weeks/Getty Images • clothing: TREVOR COLLENS/AFP/Getty Images