Quotes from Criminal

Criminal Minds

Joseph Conrad said, "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary.
Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."

Emerson said, "All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle."

"Try again. Fail again. Fail better.": Samuel Beckett.

"Try not. Do or do not.": Yoda.

Winston Churchill said "The farther backward you can look, the farther forward
you can see."

Nietzsche once said, "When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into
you."

Faulkner once said, "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or
predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

Einstien once said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge

is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

Samuel Johnson wrote, "Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation
of those who we cannot resemble."

French poet Jacques Rigaut said, "Don't forget that I cannot see myself. My role is
limited to being the one who looks in the mirror."

Rose Kennedy once said, "Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as
free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them."

Euripides said, "When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must
suffer with him."

Euripides said, "When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness."

Nietzsche wrote, "The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its

existence, rather a condition of it."
Shakespeare wrote, "Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever
remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

Hemingway wrote, "There is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who
have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything
else.”

Carl Jung said, "The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the
tortured who turn into torturers.”

Robert Oxton Bolt once wrote, "A belief is not merely an idea the mind
possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind."

Albert Einstein asked, "The question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or the
others crazy?"

Sir Peter Ustinov said, "Unfortunately, a super abundance of dreams is paid for by
a growing potential for nightmares."

Playwright Eugene Ionesco said, "Ideology separate us. Dreams and anguish
bring us together."

Harriet Beecher Stowe once said "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for
words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

"The poet, W. H. Auden wrote, 'Evil is unspectacular, and always human, and
shares our bed and eats at our table.'"

"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done." Elizabeth Barrett
Browning.

Roman philosopher Lucretius said, "What is food to one, is to others bitter

poison."
 Confucius warned us, "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two
graves."

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. (Genesis 9:6)

Albert Pine said, "What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others
and the world remains and is immortal."

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.- Sir
Francis Bacon

Norman Maclean wrote, "It is those we live with and love and should know who
elude us."

Abraham Lincoln once said "In the end it's not the years in your life that count.
It's the life in your years."

Nietzsche wrote, "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being
overwhelmed by the tribe."

Gandhi said, "Better to be violent if there's violence in our hearts than to put on
the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence."

Gandhi also said, "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the
good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent."

W. H. Auden said, "Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so

that society must take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement
or grant forgiveness."

Diane Arbus once said, "A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells
you, the less you know."

Bernard Shaw once said, "An American has no sense of privacy. He does not
know what it means. There is no such thing in the country."

Anthony Brandt wrote, "Other things may change us, but we start and end with
family."
Mexican proverb, “The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.”

The author François de la Rochefoucauld wrote, "We are so accustomed to

disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
The French philosopher Voltaire wrote, "There are some that only employ words
for the purpose of disguising their thoughts."

Albert Einstein said, "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field
of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

George Orwell said, "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a
revolutionary act."

Writer Elbert Hubbard said, "No man needs a vacation so much as the man who
has just had one."

"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all
imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left
behind." French writer François de la Rochefoucauld.

"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In
time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain
lessens. But it is never gone." Rose Kennedy.

Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer said "The test of the morality of a society is what
it does for its children."

Mark Twain wrote "Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the
only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."

Philosopher Kahlil Gibran wrote "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest
souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he
will tell you the truth," Oscar Wilde

"The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this
humiliation is seen by everyone," Milan Kundera

Helen Keller once said "Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of
the overcoming of it."
 Plato wrote "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real
tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

Legendary basketball coach John Wooden said: "It's not so important who starts
the game, but who finishes it."

"The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is driven to transcend himself, is

to create or to destroy, to love or to hate." Erich Fromm

Robespierre wrote "Crime butchers innocence to secure a prize, and innocence

struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."

Elbert Hubbard once wrote "If men could only know each other, they would
never either idolize or hate."

Mahatma Gandhi once said "All through history, there have been tyrants and
murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always
fall, always."

Dale Turner mused "Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The
error of the past is the wisdom of the future."

Ralph Waldo Emerson said "In order to learn the important lessons in life, one
must, each day, surmount a fear."

T.S. Eliot wrote "Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the
act, falls the shadow."

T.S. Eliot wrote "Between the desire and the spasm, between the potency and the
existence, between the essence and the descent, falls the shadow. This is the way
the world ends."

All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets —
writer Cory Doctorow.

"One begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." It's one
of Sherlock Holmes' favorite quotes.
Aristotle said, "Evil brings men together."

Condemned murderer Perry Smith said of his victims, the Clutter family "I didn't
have anything against them and they never did anything wrong to me, the way
other people have all my life. Maybe they're just the ones who have to pay for it."

There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins.
Ecclesiastes 7:20

"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate." Socrates

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living." Cicero

"Our life is made by the death of others." Leonardo da Vinci

"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
Thomas Paine

Robert Kennedy once said "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a
guide by which to live."

"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul," John Calvin.

Gandhi said "Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live
forever."

An old Russian proverb reminds us, "There can be no good without evil."

"Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way,"
Leo Tolstoy.

"One man's wilderness is another man's theme park." Author unknown.

The British historian James Anthony Froude once said, "Wild animals never kill
for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow
creatures is amusing in itself."
"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms
made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed."
Herman Melville.

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world— not even our troubles," Charles
Chaplin.

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good
characters, and my enemies for their good intellect." Oscar Wilde.

George Washington said, "Let your heart feel for the affliction and distress of
everyone."

The Taoist philosopher Lao-tze once wrote, "he who controls others may be
powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "You gain strength, courage and confidence by
every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face; You must do
the thing you think you cannot do."

"In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs,
though, it's intimate and psychological - resistant to generalization, a mystery of
the individual soul." - Barbara Ehrenreich

Dostoyevsky once said, “Nothing is easier than denouncing the evildoer. Nothing
more difficult than understanding him.”

G.K. Chesterton wrote: "Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist.
Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons
can be killed."

"Now what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the
various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each
one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage?" Erasmus.

"An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be
free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects." Martin Luther.

“Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters.” - Francisco Goya

16th century English novelist Thomas Deloney wrote, "God sends meat and the
Devil sends cooks."

William Shakespeare wrote, love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

"Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of
invading realities." Author Clive Barker.

The American poet Anne Sexton once wrote "It doesn't matter who my father
was; it matters who I remember he was."

Wordsworth wrote, "A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its
life in every limb. What should it know of death?"

: "No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without
enemies." Daisy Bates

"It is a wise father that knows his own child." William Shakespeare.

"I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is
my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils." Euripides.

"For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although
ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won." - Lucy Maud
Montgomery

"...within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes
the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be."
Neuroscientist Dr. R. Joseph.

"There is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of

life and what it brings." Arthur Rubinstein.

"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession." -

Daniel Webster

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to

endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering." - Ben Okri

"A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ." John Steinbeck
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with
nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a
presumption that once our eyes watered." - Tom Stoppard

"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses." -
George Bernard Shaw

"If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find." - John Churton
Collins

Susan B. Anthony said, "A woman must not depend on the protection of man, but
must be taught to protect herself."

Author Christian Nestell Bovee once wrote, "No man is happy without a delusion
of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave
behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter
another." - Anatole France

: ... Poetry was something they shared. It's Wordsworth. "What though the
radiance that was once so bright be now forever taken from thy sight, though
nothing can bring back..."

"Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the
flower; we will grieve not, but rather find strength in what remains behind." Comment [NO1]: Find episode

Voltaire said, "The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for
realities, is an enthusiast. The man who supports his madness with murder is a
fanatic."

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. -
Ernest Hemingway

"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. The goal is to create something that
will." Chuck Palahniuk

Wendell Berry said, "The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason
to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding
something better to it."

"To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly." Benjamin Franklin.

"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it." Ayn
Rand.
Thomas Fuller wrote, "A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell."

Roman poet Fadrus wrote; Things are not always what they seem; The first
appearence decieves many. The intelligence of many, percieves what has been
carefully hidden.

Plenty sit still. Hunger, is a wanderer. Zulu proverb.

Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea, And the East and West the
wander-thirst that will not let me be.”, Gerald Gould

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the
readiest response. - Amos Bronson Alcott

I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay. -
Bob Dylan

What was silent in the father, speaks in the son; and often I found in the son, the
unveiled secret of the father. - Frederick Neitzsche.

There is no refuge for memories and remorse in this world; the spirits of our
foolish deeds will haunt us, with or without repentance. - Gilbert Parker.

Let us consider that we are all insane; it will explain us to each other; it will
unriddle many riddles. - Mark Twain.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method that rejects revenge, aggression
and retaliation. The foundation of such a method, is love. - Martin Luther King,
Jr.

Author Harlan Ellison wrote: The minute people fall in love, they become liars.

P. J. O'Rourke wrote: Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is

unlikely.

We are all brothers under the skin; and I for one am willing to skin humanity to
prove it - Ayn Rand.

For he today who sheds my blood with me; shall be my brother - William
Shakespeare.

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black
flag, and begin to slit throats - H. L. Mencken.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the
way that they were - President Dwight Eisenhower.
No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.
Betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. - Sigmund Freud

British historian C. Northcote Parkinson said; Delay is the deadliest form of

denial.

Winston Churchill said; there is no doubt that it is around the family and the home
that all the greatest virtues of human society are created, strengthened and
nurtured.

Mario Puzo wrote; The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its
loyalty to each other.

And so, all the night tide, I lie down by the sea, Of my darling, my darling, my
life and my bride, In her spulchere there by the sea-, In her tomb by the side of the
sea. Edgar Allan Poe

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don`t believe, no
proof is possible. Stuart Chase

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they
can learn. Albert Einstein

Austrian novelist Marie Ebner von Eschenbach wrote: In youth we learn; in age
we understand.

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their
conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual channel between nature and culture.
Camille Paglia