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
Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, sociopaths are antisocial by nature, and their lack of empathy and foresight consigns them to view society only as a restraint… — Bruce Cannon Gibney 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'm not actually a psychopath. I don't look evil. People don't normally want to put me in the same kind of things… — David Oakes Copy Share Image
“Psychopathy was positively associated with in-house ratings of charisma and presentation style: creativity, good strategic thinking, and excellent communication skills.” — Kevin Dutton Copy Share Image
“Marsh recounts an anecdote about a psychopath who was being tested with a series of pictures and who failed over and over… — Paul Bloom 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
“Despite myself, I wince. Everything about her screams “psychopath” – and not the ho-hum, hey-kid-I’m-a-creepy-loner-who’s-gonna-chop-you-up-and-eat-you kind that Hollywood adores. She’s the truly… — K.C. King Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to destroy Islam. Islam is the pumped up ego of a megalomaniac psychopath. Muhammad was a narcissist madman.… — Ali Sina 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
When someone like myself points out the rather obvious and compelling evidence that God is cruel and unjust, because he visits suffering… — Sam Harris 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
The central trait of sociopathy is a complete lack of conscience, which is very difficult for most people to get their heads… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
“Sociopath” and “psycho” were two of the most common field diagnoses for my look and expression. I heard it all the time:… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
We're all hoping that Trump doesn't get our world on his terms because there won't be anything of it left. Trump is… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
I think the weird thing about playing a psychopath is that you really have to believe that you, as the character, did… — Eliza Scanlen Copy Share Image
If I'm guilty, I'm the ultimate figure to fear, because I'm not the obvious one. But, on the other hand, if I'm… — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
Daesh is attacking us. Their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, wants to destroy the Saudi state. These people are criminals. They're psychopaths. — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
“sociopaths are very crafty when it comes to pre-meditated crimes—they only take risks when the chances are high that they won’t get… — T. Rivers, Clarence Copy Share Image
The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
“A Psychopath will go to great lengths and take calculated steps to ensure they run you over, laugh while doing it, and… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
“I’d have to be a sociopath to be a traitor. I’m a psychopath. There’s a difference, believe me. Psychopaths believe in something,… — Nick Cole 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
“These eight independent satellite states of the psychopathic personality--Machiavellian Egocentricity, Impulsive Nonconformity, Blame Externalization, Carefree Nonplanfulness, Fearlessness, Social Potency, Stress Immunity, and… — Kevin Dutton 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
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 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
“The gross difference between HPD and psychopathy is that people with HPD are very emotional—it is in fact the driving force behind… — T. Rivers, Clarence Copy Share Image
“Have to be honest with you Darquesse, I cannot feel that. That must be one of your special abilities, because to me,… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Let's be perfectly clear, shall we. The fox is not a little orange puppy dog with doe eyes and a waggly tail.… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
Another thing that's fun for sociopath is speed, literal speed, going very fast in your car. Not that everybody who goes fast… — Martha Stout 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
“The brain of a psychopath is different from most, I've weighed up my chances. Eighty per cent genetics, twenty per cent environment.… — Ali Land Copy Share Image
A sociopath can imitate emotions, where a psychopath really doesn't have that capacity. They can't fool people into thinking anything and they're… — 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
A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image