Come Quote by Walter Kirn

In Western culture, particularly North America, a lot of rules are descriptors for sociopathy: a general acceptance of lying as long as you win,…

— Martha Stout

Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees.

— Camille Paglia

Usually sociopaths will look down upon us for that very reason - that we're gullible. We're weak. One person told me that he thought…

— Martha Stout

I've never been a fan of sociopaths who have no conscience. That scares me because they're capable of anything.

— Laurie Holden

“Sociopaths, or what psychiatrists call antisocial personalities, have lifelong patterns of deceitfulness for personal gain. They lack remorse and empathy and are wizards at…

— Gary Small

“I believe that a lot of the sociopath’s traits such as charm, manipulation, lying, promiscuity, chameleonism, mask wearing, and lack of empathy are largely…

— M.E. Thomas

An intelligent sociopath can learn the rules about what's good and what's bad, what people see as good and bad. But they don't get…

— Martha Stout

Sociopaths are just like everybody else in that some of them are really brilliant, some of them are really stupid, and most of them…

— Martha Stout

Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to…

— Martha Stout

When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.

— Mardy Grothe

“But as history and experience demonstrate, power-hungry narcissistic psychopaths do not look different from normal people; and if they stand out, it is often…

— Bandy X. Lee

“A sociopath is one who sees others as impersonal objects to be manipulated to fulfill their own narcissistic needs without any regard for the…

— R. Alan Woods