Psychopathy Quote by Peter Watts Download Open image ““Psychopathy's no disorder in those shoes, eh? Just a survival strategy.”” — Peter Watts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Psychopathy
“In other words, psychopathy is being recognized as a more or less different type of human.” — Andrzej Lobaczewski Copy Share Image
“Whether you know it or not, each and every day your life is touched by the effects of psychopathy on our world.” — Andrzej Lobaczewski Copy Share Image
“What makes psychopathy so different, so surreal, so much like a relational b@$*tch-slap that it nearly knocks her head off? --The sensation of being… — Sandra L. Brown 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
“As Robert Hare, the world’s leading expert on psychopathy has stated, psychopaths are “intra-species predators.” They have the “capacity to do great harm, repeatedly,… — Joe Navarro Copy Share Image
“I think it is more helpful to characterize criminal psychopaths as “unsuccessful psychopaths”.” — Andrzej Lobaczewski Copy Share Image
People with psychopathy are very good at reading the minds of their victims. That's probably most clearly seen in deception. — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
“I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.” — Steven Moffat 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 back up… — Shannon Thomas 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 care about… — V.J. Chambers Copy Share Image
People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. The rush evoked by fractal imagery, the algorithms used for habitat selection, metastasize into art. Thrills that once had to be earned in increments of fitness can now be had… — Peter Watts Copy Share
“The Zodiac had rearranged itself into a precise grid of bright points with luminous tails. It was as though the whole planet had been… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“So much anger in here. So much hate. So much to take out on someone. This time it's going to count. She's adrift in… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“I brought her flowers one dusky Tuesday evening when the light was perfect. I pointed out the irony of that romantic old tradition— the… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Ludzie naprawdę nie walczą o odcień skóry czy ideologię – to tylko wygodne wskazówki do identyfikacji „swoich”. Wyszystko zawsze sprowadza się do więzów krwi… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“I know your race and mine are never on the best of terms." There was a cold smile in his voice if not on his face. "But I do only what you force me to. You rationalize, Keeton. You defend. You reject unpalatable truths, and if you can't reject them outright you trivialize them. Incremental evidence is never enough for… — Peter Watts Copy Share
If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Despite what you might think, NORMAL people do NOT cause problems, misfortunes, conflicts, distress or accidents. And when they do, they CAN apologize and recognize their negative influence. A person that causes these things and can’t assume any responsibility for them is, apart from showing the cognitive and moral level of a child, deserving nothing more than abandonment, because she… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share
“Prisons are full of sociopaths and psychopaths, but when questioned, the imprisoned sociopath will honestly admit that they will commit any number of crimes to help a friend. A friend will help you move; a true friend will help you move a body. A friend will bail you out of jail; a true friend will be sitting beside you. Who… — Tanya Thompson Copy Share
“I'm an 'intelligent' sociopath. I don't have problems with drugs, I don't commit crimes, I don't take pleasure in hurting people, and I don't typically have relationship problems. I do have a complete lack of empathy. But I consider that an advantage, most of the time. Do I know the difference between right and wrong, and do I want to… — M. E. Thomas Copy Share
“Nico’s anger turned as cold and dark as his blade. He’d been morphed into a few plants himself, and he didn’t appreciate it. He… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“I regularly comment on my desire to exploit my admirers or to kill babies and cute animals, and I don't even need to laugh… — M. E. Thomas 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 one society… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
“Evolutionary scholars have long stressed the adaptive role of aggressive and antisocial behavior as a high-risk strategy for social and mating competition. In evolutionary psychopathology, antisocial disorders are usually regarded as costly but potentially adaptive strategies rather than behavioral dysfunctions. Some authors have focused specifically on the evolution of psychopathy, and argued that this condition embodies a "cheater" social strategy… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share
“I'm not sure I understand what love is. It's like 'good'. No one's explained it clearly. I love ice-cream. I love chess and mathematics.… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer. Mourn his victims. Justice.[...] I just gave the go ahead to Corrections Director to proceed with Gardner's execution. May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims.[...] We will be streaming live my press conference… — Anonymous Copy Share
“I'm not unhappy, for the most part, although I do think there is a certain emptiness and meaningless that I feel, sort of like a homesickness. People feel homesick when they are not surrounded by familiar things, when they are being seen out of context, when things change too quickly. They are faced with the transitory and delicate nature of… — M.E. Thomas Copy Share
“There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when the lack… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“...agriculture and its attending social changes have likely increased selection for traits such as self-control, lower time discounting, and tolerance for routine over the… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
