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
“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 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
“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
“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
“Psychopaths are cunning, cold, and very aware of their own behavior. They take on three different personas in order to make you… — Jackson MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I have to admit that Christina is good—though I don’t like giving credit to Candor smart-mouths—and so is Peter—though I don’t like… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Malevolent ASPD. Possibly one of the most dangerous subtypes, psychopaths who fall into this category have dominant tendencies related to sadism (violence)… — T. Rivers, Clarence 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 remembered those psychologists who said psychopaths made the world go around. They meant it: society was, they claimed, an expression of… — Jon Ronson 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
“To be sure, if psychopaths do recognize that actions that are harmful are proscribed, this raises a question about why psychopaths and… — Shaun Nichols Copy Share Image
“It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“They plant little seeds of poison, whispering to everyone, idealizing them to their face, and then insulting them behind their backs. “Insulting”… — Jackson MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“We’re used to the film versions of psychopaths. The clearly crazies. But most psychopaths are clever. They have to be. They know… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or in society, in the world. They're people… — Annie Parisse Copy Share Image
“Aside from clinically-diagnosed psychopaths, I have not met one person in war who thoroughly enjoyed killing. If someone ended up bragging over… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“The world dotes on its lunatics, whether saintly or sadistic, and commemorates their careers. Psychopaths make terrific material for news agencies and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
I believe that anyone who wants to stand in a national election should receive a course of psychotherapy. Completing the course should… — George Monbiot 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
At least she had a clear picture of what the Lying Game was now: Girl Scouts for psychopaths. — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
“If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us... but they're still fucking psychopaths.” — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
“She's sociopathic. She will have no moral compunction in doing whatever is in her interests. It's as simple as that.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“As Robert Hare, the world’s leading expert on psychopathy has stated, psychopaths are “intra-species predators.” They have the “capacity to do great… — Joe Navarro Copy Share Image
I always wonder about psychopaths, just because they have no empathy, does that necessarily mean they enjoy being cruel? Because we all… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
“June 2011 article in the Financial Times titled “Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Bankers’ ” noted, “The characteristics that make for good traders and… — Thom Hartmann 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
“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
“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 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
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