Words I'm Glad I DIDN'T Write: Disturbing Quotes By Famous Criminals

Some of these quotes are positively chilling, even for a seasoned true-crime enthusiast like myself. I don't particularly enjoy getting into the minds of these twisted people too much. Ick! ~  JH

"I have too great a soul to die like a criminal."

~  John Wilkes Booth

"You can get much further with 

a kind word and a gun than 

you can with a kind word alone."

~  Al Capone

"All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. 

Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now 

that it's happened, I guess I'm just about 

the best bank robber they ever had. 

And I sure am happy."

~  John Dillinger

"Hate is more lasting than dislike."

~  Adolf Hitler

"Politics is when you say you are going 

to do one thing while intending to do 

another. Then you do neither what 

you said nor what you intended."

~  Saddam Hussein

"If you think your boss is stupid, remember: 

you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter."

~  John Gotti

"I have a microphone on one ankle

and an ankle bracelet on the other,

so I'm well-balanced today."

~  Martha Stewart

"To me, death is not a fearful thing.

It's living that's cursed."

~  Jim Jones

"I believe in nothing."

~  Theodore Kaczynski

"We serial killers are your sons,

we are your husbands,

we are everywhere.

And there will be more of

your children dead tomorrow."

~  Ted Bundy

"We love death. The U.S. loves life.

That is the difference between us two."

~  Osama bin Laden

"Once I've done a crime, I just

forget it. I go from crime to crime."

~  Henry Lee Lucas

"I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you:

you haven't got long before you are all 

going to kill yourselves, because you

are all crazy. And you can project it

back at me, but I am only what lives

inside each and every one of you."

~  Charles Manson

"Borrowing a page from U.S. foreign 

policy, I decided to send a message

 to a government that was 

becoming increasingly hostile."

~  Timothy McVeigh

"I hear they burn for murder. Well,

they say it just takes a second to die."

~  Lee Harvey Oswald

"My opinion was that if we had a common

enemy, we should get together commonly."

~  Julius Rosenberg

"They can gas me, but I am famous.

I have achieved in one day what it

took Robert Kennedy all his life to do."

~  Sirhan Sirhan

"The women I killed were filth – prostitutes

who were littering the streets. I was

just cleaning up the place a bit."

~  Peter Sutcliffe

"I robbed them, and I killed them cold

as ice, and I would do it again, and I

know I would kill another person because

I've hated humans for a long time."

~  Aileen Wuornos

"I knew quite well, when I gave the names

of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was

exposing them to the full machinery of

counterespionage and the law, and then

prosecution and capital punishment."

~  Aldrich Ames

"See you in the darkness."

~  Gary Gilmore