Sociopath Quotes - Page 2

• Creative people like to think in unconventional ways, dislike rules, are easily bored, are independent, like to experiment, and enjoy being their own bosses. Basically the same traits found in most criminals and sociopaths

  Duncan Long

  Independent, Thinking, People

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• Dogs seem more photogenic than cats. In photos most cats look like sociopaths.

  Demetri Martin

  Dog, Cat, Looks

  Twitter post from Jan 11, 2013

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• There's a book called "The Sociopath Next Door." I thought most sociopaths were violent. In fact, they aren't. But almost all sociopaths want to win, no matter what.

  Denzel Washington

  Book, Winning, Doors

  "Safe House: A Conversation With Denzel Washington". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. February 04, 2012.

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• Sociopaths are just like everybody else in that some of them are really brilliant, some of them are really stupid, and most of them are somewhere in between.

  Martha Stout

  Stupid, Brilliant, Really Stupid

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

  David Chase

  Mafia, Ridiculous, Sopranos

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• I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.

  George Carlin

  Small Steps, Usual, Stage

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find you.

  Mat Johnson

  Real, Problem, Pretending

  Mat Johnson (2015). “Loving Day: A Novel”, p.6, Spiegel & Grau

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• For every man that ever walked the Earth, except maybe the sociopaths, when it comes to talking to pretty girls... it's just stark terror.

  Chuck Lorre

  Girl, Men, Talking

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• There are certainly statistics which show that most people who become sociopaths, who become homicidal, who become child- abusers, have had a history of incredible suffering. This is what we call the transmission of family sin, in which these unconscious patterns get carried on for generations in a legacy of pain. When they are not brought to awareness and worked through, each generation just automatically enacts them.

  Connie Zweig

  Children, Pain, People

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?

  Andrew Vachss

  Moving, Cat, Eye

  Andrew Vachss (2001). “Safe House”, p.244, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• An intelligent sociopath can learn the rules about what's good and what's bad, what people see as good and bad. But they don't get that intervening sense of guilt, that pang of conscience, on account of it. So they tend to know what's wrong or right, they just don't care. That's another thing that they can use against us: that we do care. We're predictable in that.

  Martha Stout

  Intelligent, People, Guilt

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No matter what I do with my life, or how successful I am, I will always be a socially awkward penguin inside.

  Wil Wheaton

  Successful, Awkward, Matter

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• Even famous people - are most concerned of all with what people who are close to them think. And the sociopath is generally not concerned with that at all.

  Martha Stout

  Thinking, People, Concerned

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy. Some of the most memorable characters in literature were villains.

  Jonathan Weeks

  Book, Character, Memorable

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• Sociopaths are not inhibited by the notion that it's wrong to be addicted, or wrong to buy illegal drugs. Also, drinking or taking drugs can be a lot of fun, and even if it's not, it can dull that painful boredom for a while. So can certain other things, like taking risks, and particularly if you take a risk-averse person and you can manipulate him or her into taking risks, that's really fun.

  Martha Stout

  Fun, Drinking, Boredom

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do think that with any kind of infidelity, on some level - unless you're dealing with a sociopath - there's always a reason.

  Jessica Capshaw

  Thinking, Infidelity, Levels

  "'Grey's Anatomy's' Jessica Capshaw: 'Arizona Does Not Forgive Callie'". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 17, 2013.

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• When you were a child, where boredom could actually get to be painful. Sociopaths experience that kind of pain in boredom. And so to be alone, to have nobody to play the game with, can be painful. It's not exactly fear, it's a kind of pain.

  Martha Stout

  Children, Pain, Boredom

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The reason I want to explain that you're probably never going to get revenge a sociopath and you're also probably not going to redeem this person, is that it is not a project that will ever succeed. At present, if a person does not have a conscience, we know of no way to instill one - not even a little bit. It's not like something you can take off the shelf and put into somebody's brain. It makes me so sad to hear people say, "I think I can see just a little bit of a conscience."

  Martha Stout

  Revenge, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I’m not a sociopath or a freak (although I don’t suppose people who are sociopaths or freaks self-identify as such); I just don’t enjoy being with people. People, at least in my experience, rarely say anything interesting to each other. They always talk about their lives and they don’t have very interesting lives. So I get impatient. For some reason I think you should only say something if it’s interesting or absolutely has to be said.

  Peter Cameron

  Thinking, Self, People

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.28, Macmillan

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• Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.

  Robert Breault

  Running, Expression, Driving

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• The sociopath wants the person to be easily enough fooled to stick with him. This can be accomplished by looking for someone who is very, very loyal. Most of us consider loyalty to be a very positive trait - and it is a positive trait. But it also blinds people to some of the traits of the person they're loyal to.

  Martha Stout

  Loyalty, People, Enough

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Research, Psychopath

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• Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.

  Michael A. Stackpole

  Enough, Folks, Hard

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• There's always somebody in your life you know that just, somehow, you know, they're just that borderline sociopath that just wants what they want and doesn't care about relationships. Everybody has several of those people in their life.

  Maynard James Keenan

  People, Care, Want

  Source: voidau.com

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• I guess the verdict is in - I am not a sociopath. It's not effective or productive not to be nice. It would undermine the goals I want to achieve on any given day.

  Whitney Cummings

  Nice, Goal, Want

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