Mark Frost Quotes

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

Wickedness is its own punishment.

All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.

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

Evil does not grow out of the soil, nor does mischief spring from the ground. Only man is born to do mischief, just as sparks fly upward.

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?

If I was a bad character that got away with murder like we see on other shows, I do not think I would like it because that sends a message that you can do these horrible things and never pay for it.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Bad people are intriguing!

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

I love criminal law. It must be the Dostoyevskian streak in me. I'm fascinated by the accumulation of forces that make people behave in ways that everybody else hates.

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

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

I'm always curious how we sometimes have a different point of view when it comes to justice. And that's why people root for 'Dexter.'

I do believe quite strongly in evil.

The most wicked thing that the dark side of human nature has ever come up with.

No one may do evil that good may come.

If we started prosecuting people for sin, we’d all be in jail.

Human law is imposed on the multitude, a part of which is composed of men imperfect in virtue. Thus all the vices from which the virtuous abstain are not punished by human law, but only the more grievous ones which most people can avoid, and especially those which can hurt others, without the prohibition of which human society could not be preserved. Thus homicide, theft and the like are prohibited by human law.

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.