Henry Lee Lucas Quotes

Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

If I’m ever released, I do the same again. Exactly the same.

We're recycling very dangerous criminals over and over again.

A duty to the public must be to stop prisoners reoffending through successful rehabilitation.

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

My approach to the story... is if you can get into a criminal's mind and understand how it works and understand how crime is committed, you can help prevent it from happening to someone else.

I've never had any interest in reading the real-life stories of criminals. I don't want to get inside their heads.

Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.

Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.

...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his enlargement, than to do, with greater cunning, what he did before with less.

When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.

You must remember that the common criminal will always join the armed forces for, if nothing else, regular meals and expert training in the use of guns.

There is a thin line between the policeman and the criminal. The best cops are always crossed. The best cops are the ones who are able to think like criminals. But for a quirk of fate, they might have been criminals.

In no way do I feel superior to anyone except paedophiles, rapists, murderers, etc.

I don't understand the problem with paroling Charles Manson? I say set him free and let him get on with his work. I have a long list of celebrities I'd be glad to share with him.

What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?

I penetrate the hearts of good kids and criminals

Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.

I earned my share same as everybody. Well, I coulda got killed same as everybody. And I'm wanted by the law same as everybody. I'm a nervous wreck, and that's the truth. I have to take sass from Miss Bonnie Parker all the time. I deserve mine.

It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?