Law & Disorder Quotes

“Without the sense that individuals are responsible for their own actions, and that there are appropriate consequences to violating society's most basic values, the concepts of morality and right and wrong become meaningless. And then you have no society.”
― Mark Olshaker, Law & Disorder: The Legendary FBI Profiler's Relentless Pursuit of Justice

“When people believe a conclusion to be true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound.”
― John Edward Douglas, Law & Disorder:: Inside the Dark Heart of Murder

“Someone acts like a maniac does not necessarily mean he doesn’t know exactly what he’s doing”
― John Edward Douglas, Law & Disorder: The Legendary FBI Profiler's Relentless Pursuit of Justice

“It all comes down to this: Whenever theory supersedes evidence, and prejudice deposes rationalism, there can be no real justice.”
― John E. Douglas, Law & Disorder:: Inside the Dark Heart of Murder

“We always say that if an individual makes you viscerally uncomfortable, there is probably a legitimate reason and you should pay attention to that feeling.”
― John Edward Douglas, Law & Disorder

“In that treatise Mather wrote his famous formulation: It were better that Ten Suspected Witches should escape, than that one Innocent Person should be Condemned. That sentiment, of course, evolved into the moral underpinning of our modern system of justice. It”
― John E. Douglas, Law & Disorder:: Inside the Dark Heart of Murder