Ian Brady > Quotes

“The concept of hell and endless torment is popular with those who believe they aren't headed there.”
― Ian Brady, The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis

“One should try to be honest with oneself almost as a daily devotion.”
― Ian Brady, The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis

“We do whatever we enjoy doing. Whether is happens to be judged good or evil is a matter for others to decide.”
― Ian Brady, The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis

“We are what we believe we are at given times.”
― Ian Brady, The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis

“Good laws left to the interpretation of evil men are no longer good.”
― Ian Brady, The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis

“Unfortunately, many people sleepwalk through life without conscious awareness of their own system, if they have one at all, and are therefore susceptible to external notions o right and wrong imposed by others, particlarly members of the ofen eminently unqualified upper class and their support system, mass media.”
― Ian Brady

“Without temptation what value is virtue?”
― Ian Brady, The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis

“The plain and perhaps regrettable fact is that it is part of the eternal human psyche and cycle for the normal individual to derive cathartic satisfaction and enjoyment from savouring the crimes of others, and from luxuriously dreaming of personally committing them. Similar cathartic satisfaction is afforded by contemplating the punishment of those who are caught. Nobody likes a loser and therefore we believe they get what they deserve. What do you believe you deserve for the undetected crimes and secret moral outrages you have committed in thought or action? Absolution?”
― Ian Brady, The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis