Psychopath Quotes - Page 2

• In short, ISIS is composed of religiously motivated psychopaths.

  Jay Sekulow

  Isis, Motivated

  Jay Sekulow, Jordan Sekulow, Robert W Ash, David French (2014). “Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can't Ignore”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance ; a need for constant stimulation; a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt.

  Chris Hedges

  Lying, Self, Deception

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• You have psychopaths and sociopaths in charge.

  Gerald Celente

  Sociopath

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• Psychopaths know intellectually what is immoral they just don't have a feeling of immorality about it.

  Barbara Oakley

  Bullying, Feelings, Immorality

  Barbara Oakley (2010). “Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfri end”, p.102, Prometheus Books

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• Contrary to the romantic way in which our history is/has been portrayed, politicians are NOT 'men of good conscience.' In the real world, it takes a psychopath to want to rule over other human beings. Unless you want to define the word 'service' in the context of what a bull does to a cow, in no way are the efforts of politicians in this regard any kind of 'service'.

  Edward Britton

  Real, Men, Effort

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• Sociopath is a word that has sort of become shorthand for psychopath and there's a distinct difference, it's interesting if you look it up. Sociopath if you look at the medical definition, the profile of a sociopath is that they are supremely intelligent people that are also pathological liars, they have no moral structure and there is one more, they have no compassion or empathy for other people.

  Cillian Murphy

  Liars, Intelligent, Compassion

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You forget, darling, I am the local psychopath." ~Clayton Danvers, Bitten

  Kelley Armstrong

  Forget, Darling, Locals

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• If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

  Dan Simmons

  Insanity, Mind, Would Be

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• I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it.

  Sean Bean

  Guy, Limits, Sometimes

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• Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes to understand that psychopaths can be entrepreneurs, politicians, CEOs and other successful individuals who may never see the inside of a prison.

  Robert D. Hare

  Successful, Ideas, People

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• Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest - have some kind of dignity or worth that no elephant, pig, or chimpanzee can ever achieve, we see that this question is as difficult to answer as our original request for some relevant fact that justifies the inequality of humans and other animals.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Pigs, Elephants

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• Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Lying

  Nobel lecture as quoted in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1974.

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• Sociopaths are more complicated psychopaths; the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath is a sociopath is incredibly charming. There are a lot of sociopaths that are CEOs. They don't necessarily kill people but they're able to walk into a big social function and make everybody think they're the kindest, coolest, smartest, most interesting person in the room.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Thinking, Differences, People

  "'Jack Reacher' Villain Patrick Heusinger on Playing Opposite Tom Cruise". Interview with Harper's Bazaar, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 24, 2016.

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• McCain might have suffered hardships in his life, but what had happened to him had nothing to do with his background or his color; they were convenient excuses now. He had been a psychopath from the start.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Color, Hardship, Might

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• I think culture is where things change in us deeply. But right now, I think that people are very traumatised. They are very scared. Having grown up in a house with a perpetrator who was violent every day and terrorising every day, I feel like that this country is suddenly very much like the house and the family I grew up in. Every day we are glued to our phones, glued to our television; "What is this psychopath going to do next? How will he embarrass us? Who will he bully or hurt or humiliate today? It's so easy to get locked into a syndrome where the perpetrator is ruling your life.

  Eve Ensler

  Country, Hurt, Thinking

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Empathy, Devil, Aphrodisiac

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• I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.

  Jon Ronson

  Money, Wall, Differences

  Jon Ronson (2011). “The Psychopath Test”, p.165, Pan Macmillan

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• My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths.

  Katie Price

  Dream, Serial Killer, Trying

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• You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel," but comic books are still incredibly stupid.

  Bill Watterson

  Stupid, Book, Superhero

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• Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, ‘I love you’ but it means nothing more to him than if he said, ‘I’ll have a cup of coffee.

  Robert D. Hare

  Coffee, Love You, Mean

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• Psychopaths don't have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They're more obsessive.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Mean, Skills, Charming

  "'Jack Reacher' Villain Patrick Heusinger on Playing Opposite Tom Cruise". Interview with Harper's Bazaar, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 24, 2016.

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• I grew up in a working-class community. I come from a big family. I knew Donald Trump would win because I knew he is what poor Americans think a rich person looks like. And I knew that Hillary Clinton would annoy voters in their tens of millions, because she basically sucked at communicating with poor people and seemed like a person who'd been powerful and rich for decades. She was a disastrous candidate. I mean, she was up against a psychopath and she still lost. The country's thinking was beyond her, literally.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Powerful, Mean, Winning

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.

  Joel Bakan

  Real, People, Half

  Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• I must speak the truth, even at the risk of being ostracized by my fellow scribblers. In fact, anticipating their rage, I have already applied for a place in the Canada Council's witness-protection program. This because, much as it pains me to turn on my kind, I fear the time has come to admit that far too many celebrated writers were outrageous liars, philanderers, drunks, druggies, unsuitable babysitters, plagiarists, psychopaths, parasites, cowards, indifferent dads or moms and bad credit risks.

  Mordecai Richler

  Mom, Pain, Dad

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• 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.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Ideas, Understanding, Rakes

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