“It’d be even better if murderers, psychopaths, and villains simply held a sign up for inquiring minds to spot easily.” — Kerri Maniscalco Copy Share Image
“The psychopaths are always around. In calm times we study them, but in times of upheaval, they rule over us.” —Ernst Kretschmer” — Brenda Novak Copy Share Image
“We’re about to be overrun by an entire generation of juvenile psychopaths.” — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
“God, lots of psychopaths walked free, in every culture and in every walk of life.” — Lori G. Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Demagogues and psychopaths dominated the political scene, and prejudice and intolerance were poisoning everything,” — David Lagercrantz Copy Share Image
“Calculating, devious, and controlling, psychopaths are very dangerous when crossed.” — T. Rivers, Clarence Copy Share Image
“I think it is more helpful to characterize criminal psychopaths as “unsuccessful psychopaths”.” — Andrzej Lobaczewski Copy Share Image
“When it comes to your self-esteem, it is best not to value the opinions of deluded psychopaths.” — Rosen Trevithick Copy Share Image
“psychopaths are resistant to treatment regimens; in fact, they often become more dangerous after treatment as they learn how to manipulate the… — Steven Briggs Copy Share Image
“I couldn't see where the collection of Burger King figurines fit in, but I supposed there was no reason why psychopaths shouldn't… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“Here’s a simple reminder: not all psychopaths are criminals, and not all criminals are psychopaths. In fact, you may have an acquaintance… — T. Rivers, Clarence Copy Share Image
I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I read a lot of books about psychopaths. I read a wonderful book Amy Hempel gave me about the guy who created… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
“There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“The corporate environment, with its downsizing, restructuring, mergers, and acquisitions, has actually become even more of a hothouse for psychopaths.” — Kevin Dutton Copy Share Image
Many psychopaths describe the traditional treatment programmes as finishing schools where they hone their skills. Where they find out that there are… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just… — Sam Vaknin Copy Share Image
“Prisons are full of sociopaths and psychopaths, but when questioned, the imprisoned sociopath will honestly admit that they will commit any number… — Tanya Thompson Copy Share Image
No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never… — Arno Gruen Copy Share Image
“Many people believe that all psychopaths are aggressive individuals with violent tendencies, and that all of them are criminals capable of doing… — T. Rivers, Clarence Copy Share Image
One of the problems with studies that examine the effects of violent imagery is that they typically use mentally healthy psychology students.… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
“He was about to cross a point of no return. The place separating him from the imaginary line in the sand. The… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
“Whereas most people automatically anticipate the consequences of their actions, automatically feel shame for unkind deeds, automatically understand why they should persist… — James Blair Copy Share Image
“Everyone messes up every now and then, but psychopaths recite excuses more often than they actually follow through with promises. Their actions… — Peace Copy Share Image
“Psychopaths don't act like Hannibal Lecter or Norman Bates. They come off like Hugh Grant, in his most adorable role.” — Dave Cullen Copy Share Image
The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way. — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
“psychopaths are quick-change artists who can conform to any shape imaginable.” — Andrew E. Kaufman Copy Share Image
If I have a mission in life, it is to convince people that everyone is morally motivated - everyone except for psychopaths. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Psychopathy is basically the absence of sympathy. There are fewer female psychopaths, perhaps because female psychophats would not have shown sufficient sympathy… — Geoffrey Miller 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
“Theta waves are associated with drowsy, meditative, or sleeping states. Yet in psychopaths, they occur during normal waking states, even sometimes during… — Kevin Dutton Copy Share Image
“Unlike people with other mental disorders, psychopaths are keenly aware of the impact that their behavior has on others. That’s half the… — Jackson MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“Psychopaths are parasitic, emotionally stunted, and incapable of change. Once this individual is gone from your life, you will find that everything… — Jackson MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Destructive path that we're on, two psychopaths but we Know that no matter how many knives we put in each others backs… — Fash Copy Share Image
“We aren't all good people just trying to do good. Some of us are psychopaths . And psychopaths are to blame for… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Psychopaths didn’t have to kill people, after all. The condition was marked by a sincere lack of empathy and an inability to… — V.J. Chambers Copy Share Image
“Because of these exaggerated dopamine responses, once they focus on the chance to get a reward, psychopaths are unable to alter their… — Kevin Dutton Copy Share Image
Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
