Mark Frost Quotes

I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.

Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone

Successful crimes alone are justified.

A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.

Court rules do not cause crime.

Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind.

The most malign of all these dangers today is disregard and disobedience of law. Crime is increasing. Confidence in rigid and speedy justice is decreasing.

You have seen for a long time the great disorder in the world caused by these crimes. It is so bad in some of your provinces, I am told, and you are so weak in the administration of justice, that one can hardly go along the road by day or night without being attacked by robbers; and whether at home or abroad one is in danger of being despoiled either by force or fraud.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists.

Criminals don't care what the law is.

I have always been against the gangster as hero.

The problem is that we have evil people who try to skirt the laws. And that's the problem.

Simply put, violent criminals break the law - any law - every day with impunity.

When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's only recourse to violence.

There's crime everywhere.

I'm not at all upset to be considered a crime novelist. But for me, it's never really about the crime or the violence. I'm much more interested in exploring issues.

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

Laws can't control the lawless.

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

Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.