Quote by T. Rivers, Clarence

“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

The physical basis for sociopathy is approximately 50 percent inheritable, which sounds more dramatic than it probably is, because most personality characteristics that psychologists…

— Martha Stout

“The high incidence of sociopathy in human society has a profound effect on the rest of us who must live on this planet, too,…

— Andrzej Lobaczewski

The central trait of sociopathy is a complete lack of conscience, which is very difficult for most people to get their heads around, because…

— Martha Stout

“In other words, psychopathy is being recognized as a more or less different type of human.”

— Andrzej Lobaczewski

Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society,

— Jackson Katz

Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task.

— Martha Stout

“Psychopathy is basically the absence of sympathy. There are fewer female psychopaths, perhaps because female psychophats would not have shown sufficient sympathy to their…

— Geoffrey Miller

“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

“Because psychopathy is difficult to diagnose, but often subject to public scrutiny, it’s actually often confused with other personality disorders with which it shares…

— T. Rivers, Clarence

“In the macrosocial phenomenon we shall later call “pathocracy”, a certain hereditary anomaly isolated as “essential psychopathy” is catalytically and causatively essential for the…

— Andrzej Lobaczewski

The ultimate manipulation is to kill someone, and sociopathy is murderous in a psychological sense - there's a kind of soul-murder going on.

— Martha Stout