„I have the little idea, my friend, that this is a crime very carefully planned and staged. It is a far-sighted, long-headed crime. It is not — how shall I express it?“

— Agatha Christie

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„I have the little idea, my friend, that this is a crime very carefully planned and staged. It is a far-sighted, long-headed crime. It is not — how shall I express it? — a Latin crime. It is a crime that shows traces of a cool, resourceful, deliberate brain — I think an Anglo-Saxon brain.“
— Agatha Christie
„A crime is the violation of the right(s) of other men by force (or fraud). It is only the initiation of physical force against others- i. e., the recourse to violence- that can be classified as a crime in a free society (as distinguished from a civil wrong). Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.“
— Ayn Rand
„I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain“
— Cassandra Clare
„My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.“
— Jane Austen
„When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.“
— Paulo Coelho
„I can offer you my life, though it is a short life. I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope the rest of my life-whatever its length-happy, by spending it with you.-Jem.“
— Cassandra Clare
„By the same principle, the government may not give special leniency to the perpetrator of a crime, on the grounds of the nature of his ideas.“
— Ayn Rand