Criminal Minds · Quotes by reader
Quotes Read by Rossi 23 quotations in Criminal Minds
Rossi (David Rossi, played by Joe Mantegna) reads the opening or closing quotation 23 times across 17 episodes of Criminal Minds, from “Identity” (2007) to “The Internet Is Forever” (2010).
- Season 3 · Episode 7 · Opening quote
Identity
“An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.”
- Season 3 · Episode 13 · Opening quote
Limelight
“I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.”
- Season 3 · Episode 13 · Closing quote
Limelight
“For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world, and, although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won.”
- Season 3 · Episode 14 · Opening quote
Damaged
“Within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.”
- Season 3 · Episode 15 · Opening quote
A Higher Power
“There is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession.”
- Season 4 · Episode 8 · Opening quote
Masterpiece
“Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles.”
- Season 4 · Episode 8 · Closing quote
Masterpiece
“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
- Season 4 · Episode 9 · Closing quote
52 Pickup
“Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.”
- Season 4 · Episode 11 · Closing quote
Normal
“There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.”
- Season 4 · Episode 14 · Closing quote
Cold Comfort
“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.”
- Season 4 · Episode 15 · Opening quote
Zoe's Reprise
“I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
- Season 4 · Episode 15 · Closing quote
Zoe's Reprise
“In youth we learn; in age we understand.”
- Season 4 · Episode 17 · Closing quote
Demonology
“There is no heresy or philosophy so abhorrent to the church as a human being.”
- Season 4 · Episode 21 · Opening quote
A Shade of Gray
“To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself.”
- Season 4 · Episode 21 · Closing quote
A Shade of Gray
“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”
- Season 5 · Episode 1 · Opening quote
Nameless, Faceless
“A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.”
- Season 5 · Episode 3 · Opening quote
Reckoner
“Justice without force is powerless. Force without justice is tyrannical.”
- Season 5 · Episode 3 · Closing quote
Reckoner
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice.”
- Season 5 · Episode 14 · Opening quote
Parasite
“If I am what I have, and if I lose what I have, who, then, am I?”
- Season 5 · Episode 15 · Opening quote
Public Enemy
“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.”
- Season 5 · Episode 15 · Closing quote
Public Enemy
“When a father gives to his son, they both laugh. When a son gives to his father, both cry.”
- Season 5 · Episode 20 · Opening quote
…A Thousand Words
“A sincere artist tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.”
- Season 5 · Episode 22 · Closing quote
The Internet Is Forever
“The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.”