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Season 2 Quotes
Almost every episode of Criminal Minds begins and ends with a quote. This is a comprehensive list of the quotes,
the episodes they were in, and which character said them.

The quotes used on the show might not be the "entire" actual quote written and may be edited for
the shows purposes.
Episode
Quote
Author
Who said it

2x01, "The Fisher King (2)"

(2 quotes)
"The defects and faults of the mind are like
wounds in the body. After all imaginable care
has been taken to heal them up, still there will
be a scar left behind."
Francois de la Roche Foucauld
Gideon

"It has been said that time heals all wounds. I

do not agree. The wounds remain. In time,
the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them
with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it

with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it

is never gone."
Rose Kennedy
Reid

2x02, "P911"
(1 quote)
"The test of the morality of a society is what it
does for its children."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Gideon

2x03, "The Perfect Storm"

(2 quotes)
"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is
cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for
the pleasure of doing it."
Mark Twain
Gideon

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest

souls. The most massive characters are
seared with scars."
Khalil Gibran
Hotch

2x04, "Psychodrama"
(2 quotes)
"Man is least himself when he talks in his
own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell
you the truth."
Oscar Wilde
Hotch

"The basis of shame is not some personal

mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is
seen by everyone."
Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera
Hotch

2x05, "Aftermath"
(1 quote)
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is
also full of overcoming it."
Helen Keller
Gideon

2x06, "The Boogeyman"

(1 quote)
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of
the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men
are afraid of the light."
Plato
Hotch

2x07, "North Mammon"

(2 quotes)
"It's not so important who starts the game,
but who finishes it."
John Wooden
JJ

"The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as

he is given to transcend himself, is to create
or destroy, to love or to hate."
Erich Fromm
JJ

2x08, "Empty Planet"

(1 quote)
"Crime butchers innocents to secure a prize.
And innocence struggles with all its might
against the attempts of crime."
Maximilien Robespierre
Gideon

Gideon

2x09, "The Last Word"

(2 quotes)
"If men could only know each other, they
would neither idolize nor hate."
Elbert Hubbard
Gideon

"Remember that all through history, there

have been tyrants and murderers, and for a
time, they seem invincible. But in the end,
they always fall. Always."
Mahatma Ghandi
Hotch

2x10, "Lessons Learned"

(2 quotes)
"Some of the best lessons are learned from
past mistakes. The error of the past is the
wisdom of the future."
Dale Turner
Gideon

"In order to learn the most important lessons

of life, one must each day surmount a fear."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gideon

2x11, "Sex, Birth, Death"

(2 quotes"
"Between the idea and the reality, between
the motion and the act, falls the shadow."
T.S. Eliot
Reid

"Between the desire and the spasm, between

the potency and the existence, between the
essence and the descent, falls the shadow.
This is the way the world ends."
T.S. Eliot
Reid

2x12, "Profiler, Profiled"

(1 quote)
"All secrets are deep. All secrets become
dark. That's in the nature of secrets."
Cory Doctorow
Morgan

2x13, "No Way Out"

(1 quote)
"Evil brings men together."
Aristotle
Gideon

2x14, "The Big Game"

(1 quote)
"I didn't have anything against them, and they
never did anything wrong to me, the way
other people have all my life. Maybe they're
just the ones who have to pay for it."
Perry Smith
Gideon

2x15, "Revelations"
(1 quote)
"There is not a righteous man on Earth who
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does what is right and never
sins."
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Hotch

2x16, "Fear and Loathing"

2x16, "Fear and Loathing"

(2 quotes)
"From the deepest desires often come the
deadliest hate."
Socrates
Gideon

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory

of the living."
Cicero
Reid

2x17, "Distress"
(2 quotes)
"Our life is made by the death of others."
Leonardo Da Vinci
Gideon

"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day,

that my child may have peace."
Thomas Paine
Hotch

2x18, "Jones"
(1 quote)
"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain
wisdom, not a guide by which to live."
Robert Kennedy
Gideon

2x19, "Ashes and Dust"

(2 quotes)
"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of
a living soul."
John Calvin
Hotch

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as

if you were to live forever."
Mahatma Ghandi
Hotch

2x20, "Honor Among Thieves"

(2 quotes)
"There can be no good without evil."
Russian proverb
Prentiss

"Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy

family is unhappy in its own way."
Leo Tolstoy
Prentiss

2x21, "Open Season"

(2 quotes)
"One man's wilderness is another man's
theme park."
Unknown
Gideon

"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the

only one to whom the torture and death of his
fellow creatures is amusing in itself."
James Anthony Froud
Prentiss

2x22, "Legacy"
(2 quotes)
"Of all the preposterous assumptions of
humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms

humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms

made of the habits of the poor by the wellhoused, well-warmed, and well-fed."
Herman Melville
Hotch

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world.

Not even our troubles."
Charles Chaplin
Hotch

2x23, "No Way Out II: The Evilution of Frank"

(1 quote)
"I choose my friends for their good looks, my
acquaintances for their good characters, and
my enemies for their good intellects."
Oscar Wilde
Gideon

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