Quotes About Psychopaths

There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one.

As Dr. Robert Hare stated on page one of Without Conscience, "Everybody has met these people, been deceived and manipulated by them, and forced to live with or repair the damage they have wrought. These often charming—but always deadly—individuals have a clinical name: psychopaths. Their hallmark is a stunning lack of conscience; their game is self-gratification at the other person's expense. Many spend time in prison, but many do not. All take far more than they give.

Psychopaths tend to make exceptionally good eye contact.

If I have a mission in life, it is to convince people that everyone is morally motivated - everyone except for psychopaths.

Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That's what most of my characters are like.

You're the one thought psychopaths were so interesting, but they're kinda tiresome after a while, don't you think?

What are the two types of people who can see things that aren't there, Kate? And his quiet whisper of a punch line. Visionaries and psychopaths.

If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us... but they're still fucking psychopaths.

We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity - the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I'll respond in kind when you come to borrow my shovel tomorrow. Or nearly all of us are born with that. Psychopaths aren't.

The romantic notion that all evil is a product of society has justified the release of dangerous psychopaths who promptly murdered innocent people. And the conviction that humanity could be reshaped by massive social engineering projects led to some of the greatest atrocities in history.

Steven Pinker

Money will also make you a target for predators and psychopaths, who thrive on exploiting those who exist on the lower rungs of society.

I believe that anyone who wants to stand in a national election should receive a course of psychotherapy. Completing the course should be a qualification for office. This wouldn't change the behaviour of psychopaths, but it might prevent some people who exercise power from imposing their own deep wounds on others.

Did you join the Bureau to get as far from that case as possible?' Rainey said. 'I took this job to make a difference.' 'Honey.' The tries rang on the concrete. 'Course you did. We all did. You can say you love it. You're scared of it. You're proud. You're a badass bitch. Girl Scout with a twelve gauge. Reading psychopaths' minds is your superpower.' She cut a glance Caitlin's way. 'you can dig it.

There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one.

Sex murders were usually the work of psychopaths and with that psychology was an innate ability to lie, to act, to feign surprise and horror when it was needed. Psychopaths were great liars.

Many psychopaths describe the traditional treatment programmes as finishing schools where they hone their skills. Where they find out that there are lots of techniques they had not thought about before.

mind. Why do psychopaths act as they do? How do they come to be? Why don't they feel any remorse for the suffering they cause? And are there better ways of spotting and stopping them? After having been kidnapped, tortured and left for dead when she was just a teenager—by her high school boyfriend—she's

The psychopaths are always around. In calm times we study them, but in times of upheaval, they rule over us." —Ernst Kretschmer

New Yorkers," said Jim Tile, "think they've cornered the market on psychopaths. They don't know Florida.

The lecturer took a dim view of our species, of which psychopaths are a constant fraction, a human constant. Armed struggle, just or not, attracts them.

To a happy war!' laughter echoed with all the insane glee of an army of psychopaths.

To a happy war!" Their laughter flowed out into the night and reached into the pass through the Dancing Maidens, where it echoed around the mountains with all the insane glee of an army of pyschopaths.

The Germans are not a race of psychopaths, Alma. They're normal people like you and me, but with fanaticism, power, and impunity, anyone can turn into a monster, like the SS at Auschwitz," he told his sister.