Psychopath Quotes

• I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Research, Sociopath

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• I heard a story about her once,' said James. 'She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked him to identify the emotion. He said he didn't know what the emotion was but it was the face people pulled just before he killed them.

  Jon Ronson

  People, Stories, Faces

  Jon Ronson (2011). “The Psychopath Test”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• It's a funny thing, when you talk to God, you're religious, but when he talks to you, you're a psychopath.

  Peter Steele

  Religious, Funny Things

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• Psychopaths have a grandiose self-structure which demands a scornful and detached devaluation of others, in order to ward off their envy toward the good perceived in other people. He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit and his plans. He will show you a good time but you will always get the bill. He will smile and deceive you, and he will scare you with his eyes. And when he is through with you, and he will be through with you, he will desert you and take with him your innocence and your pride.

  Robert D. Hare

  Eye, Pride, Self

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• Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

  Jon Ronson

  Religious, Political, Ruins

  Jon Ronson (2011). “The Psychopath Test”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.

  Robert D. Hare

  Predator, Prestige, Social

  "'Corporate psychopaths' at large" by Lisa Desai, edition.cnn.com. September 3, 2004.

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• There are some people who always feel happy. They're called psychopaths

  Tal Ben-Shahar

  People, Feels

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• I always think I could play a fantastic psychopath. I'd like to play a psycho. With a heart, you know. A caring lunatic.

  Nick Frost

  Heart, Caring, Thinking

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• A psychopath can tell what you're thinking but what they don't do is feel what you feel. These are people without a conscience.

  Robert D. Hare

  Thinking, People, Political

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• Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

  Robert D. Hare

  Prison

  "Bad bosses: The Psycho-path to Success?" by Kevin Voigt, www.cnn.com. January 20, 2012.

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• The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just there. They torment their spouse by being unempathic, but they don't beat her or kill her. They bully coworkers, but they don't burn the office. They are not dramatic. They are pernicious. Most psychopaths are subtle. They are more like poison than a knife, and they are more like slow-working poison than cyanide.

  Sam Vaknin

  Knives, Office, Bully

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• I'm a psychopath, but I don't have a problem with that.

  James Marsters

  Problem

  "Interview With The Vampires: Shedding light on the tough triangle that gives Buffy The Vampire Slayer its bite". July 25, 1998.

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• Nothing shows lack of conscience better than bold-faced lying.

  Bob Altemeyer

  Lying, Shows, Conscience

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• When stepping into the mind of a psychopath, you realize that there is something missing in their brain that they do not understand the consequences of their actions- in a sense.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  Missing, Brain, Mind

  "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Hollywood Starlette Lorraine Toussaint". Interview with Kristin Downer, www.nerdprobs.com. November 1, 2015.

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• Part of being a psychopath is an ability to dissociate from one reality and create another one, completely.

  Zachary Quinto

  Reality, Ability

  Source: collider.com

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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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• You're a psychopath." "I prefer creative.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Creative

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.524, Simon and Schuster

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• I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

  Criss Jami

  Thinking, Genius, Lost

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.77, Criss Jami

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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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• 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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• 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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• There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

  James A. Baldwin

  Pain, People, Way

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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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• 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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