Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies. — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony. — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“That’s the psychopath: somebody who doesn’t understand what’s going on emotionally, but understands that something important has happened.” But” — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“So, yeah, the psychopath might cry when his dog dies and you think that’s misplaced because he doesn’t cry when his daughter… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“Psychopaths [make] the world go around...society [is] an expression of that particular sort of madness...I've always believed society to be a fundamentally… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
I heard a story about her once,' said James. 'She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
I am the neurological opposite of a psychopath, in that I feel anxious almost all the time. It must be great to… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“I vaguely remembered hearing psychologists say there was a preponderance of psychopaths at the top—in the corporate and political worlds—a clinical absence… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
At the end of our conversation she (Martha Stout) turned to address you, the reader. She said if you're beginning to feel… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“In regular circumstances, 60 percent of criminal psychopaths released into the outside world go on to re-offend. What percentage of their psychopaths… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“Justice departments and parole boards all over the world have accepted his contention that psychopaths are quite simply incurable and everyone should… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“This was truly to be a radical milestone: the world’s first-ever marathon nude psychotherapy session for criminal psychopaths. Elliott’s raw, naked, LSD-fueled… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with… — Jon Ronson Copy Share
“I wonder if I’ve got any of the 374 mental disorders,” I thought. I opened the manual again. And I instantly diagnosed myself with… — Jon Ronson Copy Share
Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony. — Jon Ronson Copy Share
“It may very well be that the frotteurist is a helpless victim in the clutches of his obsession, but it’s equally possible that he’s… — Jon Ronson Copy Share
“We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside of it.” — Jon Ronson Copy Share
My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the… — Jon Ronson Copy Share
Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet. — Jon Ronson Copy Share
“The consensus from the beginning was that only 1 percent of humans had it, but the chaos they caused was so far-reaching it could… — Jon Ronson Copy Share
“That's an incredibly depressing thought," I said "that if you're in a room and at one end lies madness and at the other end… — Jon Ronson Copy Share
The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in… — Jon Ronson Copy Share
“What a brilliant cover story. In a success-obsessed society like this one, what's the best rock to hide something under? It's the rock called… — Jon Ronson Copy Share
Guy Savelli's role in the War on Terror began when half-a-dozen strangers, within days of one another, contacted him via e-mail and telephone in… — Jon Ronson Copy Share
My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now. — Jon Ronson Copy Share
“It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you’re sane than it is to convince them you’re crazy. “I” — Jon Ronson Copy Share
It is slightly chilling to realize there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture, and exploit those down here among us… — Jon Ronson Copy Share
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