“Does a population have informed consent when a ruling minority acts in secret to ignite a war, doing this to justify the existence of the minority's forces? ... Failure to provide full information for informed consent on such an issue represents an ultimate crime.” DoeWarForceSecretExistenceIssuesCrimeInformationUltimatePopulationMinoritiesJustifyConsentRulingIgniteInformed Consent Author:Frank Herbert
“The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.” PeopleThinkingMayTogetherLyingSecretNovelCrimeCalamityKeeping SecretsCrime Novels Author:Alafair Burke
“Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part.” IfsHeartKindLittlesSoulPlayEyeBeautifulSecretSilenceCrimeGoodnessContradictionBetrayOrgansDominantEloquentLurkingEmanateHalosDeformityBeautiful Eyes Author:Arthur Frederick Saunders
“Because crime stories reveal an aspect of our personality that everybody has, but which we normally keep very deeply hidden. We like to talk about the good sides of ourselves. We don't like to talk about our hatreds, our distrusts of one another, our secrets, but crime stories drag those things to the surface and consequently they fascinate people and always have throughout all history.” PeopleStoriesSidesSecretCrimePersonalityAspectHatredSurfaceDragDistrustVery Deep Author:Bill James
“There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes - die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed. Now and then, alas, the conscience of man takes up a burden so heavy in horror that it can be thrown down only into the grave. And thus the essence of all crime is undivulged.” MenHeartHandsEyeSufferingDiesSecretMysteryCrimeHorrorBedDespairConscienceEssenceAccountsBurdenHeavyGravesThrownOld ManThroatPermitNow And ThenAlas Book:Tales by Edgar Allan Poe Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe