Born Quote by Jon Ronson

Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find…

— Robert D. Hare

Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social…

— Robert D. Hare

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes…

— Terry Pratchett

What my research told me is that a psychopath cannot change. You're born like that.

— Jeff Lindsay

Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner.…

— Robert D. Hare

People tend to think of psychopaths as criminals. In fact, the majority of psychopaths aren't criminal.

— Robert D. Hare

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Many people believe that all psychopaths are aggressive individuals with violent tendencies, and that all of them are criminals capable of doing horrendous crimes.…

— T. Rivers, Clarence

“The brain of a psychopath is different from most, I've weighed up my chances. Eighty per cent genetics, twenty per cent environment. Me. One…

— Ali Land

It's not that you make a psychopath. They are - more likely, they come out that way, and they show their stripes over time.

— Mitchell Zuckoff

“Psychological experts claim that genetics are the primary factors in play with psychopathy, although traumatic events in the environment may be the triggers.”

— T. Rivers, Clarence

“If the psychopath can "make" out of a situation, if there's any kind of reward on offer, they go for it, irrespective of risk…

— Kevin Dutton