Jason Gideon quotes from Criminal Minds

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[the artist has just pronounced her picture 'boring'] Oh, I don't think so. I mean nothing's just a picture. If viewed correctly - whatever that means - one can see world views, obsessions, manifestations of the subconscious.

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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."

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The French philosopher Voltaire wrote, "There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts."

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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."

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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."

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George Orwell said, "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." [NOTE: No source for this quote among Orwell's writings has yet been located]

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Writer Elbert Hubbard said, "No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one." [NOTE: This quote is often misattributed to Hubbard. The earliest instance that Quote Investigator could locate was in an 1899 article by Mary Sargent Hopkins, who disclaimed credit for the following remark: "There is an old saying that one never needs a vacation so much as the day after returning from one." Therefore, the originator of the quote is unknown, but it was heavily popularized by Hubbard, starting in 1904.]

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I needed a place where I didn't have to know what was out there, where I could, uh, close my eyes and not see bodies torn to pieces, or hear children calling out for help. That cabin was the only thing I had left and this guy took it away from me.

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"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 La Rochefoucauld

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

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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."

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Helen Keller once said, "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it."

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Robespierre wrote, "Crime butchers innocence to secure a prize, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."

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Elbert Hubbard once wrote, "If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate."

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[to the Mill Creek Killer] If killing those women made you an artist, the things you did to them after they were dead, what does that make you? I mean, really, it just doesn't seem very artistic, does it?