Criminal Intent Quotes

What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world. Now, think about this. You could walk across the street against a traffic light and get a summons for jaywalking, but you could walk up to a police officer and say "I want to rule the world," and there's nothing he can do about it, that is not a crime. Anybody can want to rule the world. So, even though he was the Fantastic Four's greatest menace, in my mind, he was never a criminal!

If a man stopped me in the street and demanded of me my watch, I should refuse to give it to him. If he threatened to take it by force, I feel I should, though not a fighting man, do my best to protect it. If, on the other hand, he should assert his intention of trying to obtain it by means of an action in any court of law, I should take it out of my pocket and hand it to him, and think I had got off cheaply.

For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.

It's not entrapment. Because the decoys never make the first move. Nor do they raise the issue of having sex. It's always the potential predator that does that.

I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.

I've never really been serious about my villainy. I don't have a master plan. I suppose my philosophy is: Every villain has a mother. For every cold-blooded killer on your screen, there's a little old lady somewhere who calls him 'sonny.'

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.

One less of such monsters in existence is one less who has slaughtered or would slaughter hundreds of victims

Treason is not own'd when 'tis decried; Successful crimes alone are justified.

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

We got victims out there that are getting shot four and five times, point blank range. That's not self-defense. You're not going to tell me that's self-defense.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

Another murder I committed made the front page.

There are two things that matter in a criminal investigation of a subject.What did the person do, and when they did that thing, what were they thinking? When you look at the hundred-years-plus of the Justice Department investigation and prosecution of mishandling of classified information, those two questions are obviously present.

I don't believe in murder.

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation.

You can't rob a bank on charm and personality.

I want to commit a crime during a reenactment, and turn it into an enactment.

The Church insists on the need of humane attitude towards suspects, persons under investigation and those caught in criminal intent. The crude and improper treatment of these people can either fortify them on the wrong track or push them on it. For this reason, those awaiting a verdict should not be disfranchised even in custody. They should be guaranteed advocacy and impartial justice. The Church condemns torture and indignities towards persons under investigation

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.