Quotes Selected by Ralph B. Strickland, Jr.
This excellent TV show sometimes begins but always ends with one of the characters quoting a famous person and the quote is usually tied to the theme of that particular show. My wife, Drusylla - “The Angel” - enjoys this program more than any other fictional show on TV and especially appreciates the quotes. This is my gift to her and I am sharing it with you, too, since, of course, I love you. I have not checked the accuracy of the quotes but the show’s producer’s warn: “The quotes used on the show might not be the "entire" actual quote written and may be edited for the show’s purposes.” Well, there you are.
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." Joseph Conrad
"Try again, fail again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see." Winston Churchill
"When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein
"Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable." Probably Shakespeare
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." William Faulkner
"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble." Samuel Johnson
"Don't forget that I cannot see myself -- that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror." Jacques Rigaut
"Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?" Rose Kennedy
"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him." Euripides
"The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather, a condition of it." Friedrich Nietzsche
"There are certain clues at a crime scene which by their very nature do not lend themselves to being collected or examined. How's one collect love, rage, hatred, fear...? These are things that we're trained to look for." James Reese
"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." Ernest Hemmingway
"The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers." C.J. Jung
"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses. It is an idea that possesses the mind." Robert Oxton Bolton
"Unfortunately, a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares." Sir Peter Ustinov
"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together." Eugene Ionesco
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Evil is always unspectacular and always human. And shares our bed...and eats at our table." W.H. Auden
"Who so sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed." Genesis 9:6
"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal." Mason Albert Pike
"It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us." Norman MacLean
“Who in his mind has not probed the dark water?” John Steinbeck
"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present." Sir Francis Bacon
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family." Anthony Brandt
"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves." François de la Rochefoucauld
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." Albert Einstein
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell
"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." François de la Rochefoucauld
"It has been said that 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
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it." Mark Twain
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars." Khalil Gibran
"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." Plato
"The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is given to transcend himself, is to create or destroy, to love or to hate." Eric Fromm
"Crime butchers innocents to secure a prize. And innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime." Maximilien Robespierre
"If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate." Elbert Hubbard
"Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always." Mahatma Ghandi
"Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future." Dale Turner
"In order to learn the most important lessons of life, one must each day surmount a fear." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow.” T.S. Eliot
"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." T.S. Eliot
"All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.” Cory Doctorow
"Evil brings men together." Aristotle
"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." [Perry Smith. He was one of two ex-convicts, the other – Richard Hickcock, who unnecessarily murdered four members of the Clutter family during a nighttime home invasion in Holcomb, Kansas on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood. The family was awakened and Herbert and his wife Bonnie and their two youngest children, Nancy, 16 and Kenyon 15, were all separated one from another and slaughtered alone. The oldest Clutter daughters no longer lived at home. Both men were executed in a dank, dark steel state garage on the grounds of the Kansas State prison in Lansing, Kansas, on the cold, rainy night of April 14, 1965. They were hung.]
"There is not a righteous man on Earth who does what is right and never sins." Ecclesiastes 7:20
"From the deepest desires often comes the deadliest hate." Socrates
"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” Cicero
"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." Thomas Paine
"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." Robert Kennedy
"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul." John Calvin
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." Mahatma Ghandi
"Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Leo Tolstoy
"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." James Anthony Froud
"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
"Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.” George Washington
"He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still." Lao Tzu
"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 which you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt
"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's soul." Barbara Ehrenreich
"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; Nothing more difficult than understanding him." Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed." G.K. Chesterton
"An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects." Martin Luther
"Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none." The Bard, William Shakespeare
"A simple child that lightly draws its breath and feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?" William Wordsworth
"No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies." Daisy Bates
"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
"If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find." John Churton Collins
"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
"What though the radiance that was once so bright is now forever taken from my sight.
Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind." William Wordsworth (Fragment of a poem)
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime." Ernest Hemingway
“The past is our definition. We may strive, to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.” Wendell Berry
"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it." Ayn Rand
"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell." Thomas Fuller
"Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden." Phaedrus
"Plenty sit still. Hunger is a wanderer." Zulu proverb
"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.” Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.” Gilbert Parker
"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love." Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Delay is the deadliest form of denial." British Historian C. Northcote Parkinson
"...For he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." William Shakespeare [Shakespeare puts these words in the mouth of Henry the Fifth, King of England, in his play by the name of Henry V. The battle occurred on Friday, 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day), near modern-day Agincourt in northern France where the English, vastly outnumbered, defeated the French. At the end of these quotes I have copied the entire speech for you – it is very famous and worth knowing.]
"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained." Winston Churchill
"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." Stuart Chase
"In youth we learn; in age we understand." Austrian novelist, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
"He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." Leonardo Da Vinci
“Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call destiny.” John Hobbes
"Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold." Andre Maurois
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." Terry Pratchett
"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present." Francis Bacon
"No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible." George Chakiris
“The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.” Mahatma Ghandi
"If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity." Flannery O'Connor
"Sometimes there are no words. No clever quotes to neatly sum up what's happened that day... sometimes the day... just... ends." Aaron Hotchner (Note: This is the first time that a quote used in the beginning or end of the episode had one of the main characters as its author.)
"A weak man has doubts before a decision. A strong man has them afterwards." Carl Kraus
"There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man." Polybius
"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical" Blaise Pascal
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice." Abraham Lincoln
"There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness." Kingman Brewster, Jr.
"You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around -- and why his parents will always wave back." Journalist William D. Tammeus
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
"So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty." Haniel Long
"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure." Tacitus
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love." Washington Irving
"Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you. And in this materialistic age, a great many of us are possessed by our possessions."Mildred Lisette Norman
"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate." Isaac Asimov
"Life is a game, play it.... Life is too precious, do not destroy it." Mother Teresa
"Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn." C.S. Lewis
"If I am what I have, and if I lose what I have, who then am I?" German Psychologist Erich Fromm
"Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy." F. Scott Fitzgerald
"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when his son gives to his father, both cry." William Shakespeare
"Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all." Emily Dickinson
"The family is a haven in a heartless world." Christopher Lasch
"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." Mother Teresa
"Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." Helen Keller
"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength." Ralph W. Sockman
"And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, molding men." Alfred Lord Tennyson
"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another, the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one other it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden." The Buddha
"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were." Marcel Proust
"Whatever you are, be a good one." Abraham Lincoln
"If an injury has to be done to a man, it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared." Niccolo Machiavell
“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible.” Saint Thomas A. Kempis
"Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go." Bernard Malamud
"Evil endures a moment's flush and then leaves but a burnt up shell." Elise Cabot
"When we were children, we used to think that when we grew up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability, to be alive is to be vulnerable." Madeleine L'Engle
"There is no such thing as part freedom."Nelson Mandela
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." Galileo Galilei
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller
"What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering." Frederich Nietzsche "What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today." William Glasser
“Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.” Paul Rodriguez "Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it." Vladimir Nabokov
“There's no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today." James T. McKay
"Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most people of thought believe in providence." Honore de Balzac
"What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do." Aristotle
“The past cannot be cured.” Queen Elizabeth I
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.“ Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“You may leave school, but it never leaves you.” Andy Partridge
“From childhood's hour I have not been as others were; I have not seen as others saw. “ Edgar Allan Poe
Remember: Criminal Minds is still being written with at 22 new quotes each season.
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St. Crispen's Day Speech
William Shakespeare, 1599
Enter the KING
WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in England
That do no work to-day!
KING. What's he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin;
If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
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