Century Quote by Colin Wilson

I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred years, and…

— Richard Marshall

“Traditionally, most murders and violent crimes were relatively easy for law enforcement officials to comprehend. They resulted from critically exaggerated manifestations of feelings we…

— John E. Douglas

“[W]hen I put Jorge in the library I did not yet know he was the murderer. He acted on his own, so to speak.…

— Umberto Eco

Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.

— Eric Schlosser

Normal, ordinary people do not think like a Serial Killer. They have no conception of what is going on in a killer’s mind, how…

— Richard Ramirez

The man of today, who resembles more or less the collective ideal, has made his heart into a den of murderers, as can easily…

— Carl Jung

Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The work of the philosophical policeman," replied the man in blue, "is at once bolder and more subtle than that of the ordinary detective.…

— G.K. Chesterton

“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness. For man’s everyday needs, it would have been…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be able to…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Britain proves to be an ideal setting for many a medieval-minded crime novelist, regardless of century.

— Sarah Weinman

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

— Vladimir Nabokov