John E. Douglas quotes

“There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven.”
-- John E. Douglas

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“The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 52), 1937.

“When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.”

“We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.”

“I always feel that crime films are about capitalism,”

Source : "Cannes 2012: Brad Pitt Says His New Crime Film Isn't an Attack on Obama" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 22, 2012.

“I have this weird sort of Gemini thing where I can really be empathetic and a loving person. But if you piss me off, I can be one of the meanest, most sadistic people.”

“Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.”

“Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.”

Source : 1947 In Tiger's Eye, vol.1, no.2, Dec, quoted in C Harrison and Paul Wood (eds) Art in Theory 1900-1990 (1992).

“All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.”

“To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play.”

“Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.”