Psychopath Quotes

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Research, Sociopath

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• It's a funny thing, when you talk to God, you're religious, but when he talks to you, you're a psychopath.

  Peter Steele

  Religious, Funny Things

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• Psychopaths have a grandiose self-structure which demands a scornful and detached devaluation of others, in order to ward off their envy toward the good perceived in other people. He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit and his plans. He will show you a good time but you will always get the bill. He will smile and deceive you, and he will scare you with his eyes. And when he is through with you, and he will be through with you, he will desert you and take with him your innocence and your pride.

  Robert D. Hare

  Eye, Pride, Self

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• Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  Real

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• I heard a story about her once,' said James. 'She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked him to identify the emotion. He said he didn't know what the emotion was but it was the face people pulled just before he killed them.

  Jon Ronson

  People, Stories, Faces

  Jon Ronson (2011). “The Psychopath Test”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• There are some people who always feel happy. They're called psychopaths

  Tal Ben-Shahar

  People, Feels

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

  Robert D. Hare

  Predator, Prestige, Social

  "'Corporate psychopaths' at large" by Lisa Desai, edition.cnn.com. September 3, 2004.

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• Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

  Jon Ronson

  Religious, Political, Ruins

  Jon Ronson (2011). “The Psychopath Test”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• Nothing shows lack of conscience better than bold-faced lying.

  Bob Altemeyer

  Lying, Shows, Conscience

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• Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

  Robert D. Hare

  Prison

  "Bad bosses: The Psycho-path to Success?" by Kevin Voigt, www.cnn.com. January 20, 2012.

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• Part of being a psychopath is an ability to dissociate from one reality and create another one, completely.

  Zachary Quinto

  Reality, Ability

  Source: collider.com

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• A psychopath can tell what you're thinking but what they don't do is feel what you feel. These are people without a conscience.

  Robert D. Hare

  Thinking, People, Political

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• You're a psychopath." "I prefer creative.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Creative

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.524, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a psychopath, but I don't have a problem with that.

  James Marsters

  Problem

  "Interview With The Vampires: Shedding light on the tough triangle that gives Buffy The Vampire Slayer its bite". July 25, 1998.

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• The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just there. They torment their spouse by being unempathic, but they don't beat her or kill her. They bully coworkers, but they don't burn the office. They are not dramatic. They are pernicious. Most psychopaths are subtle. They are more like poison than a knife, and they are more like slow-working poison than cyanide.

  Sam Vaknin

  Knives, Office, Bully

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• There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

  James A. Baldwin

  Pain, People, Way

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• The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.

  David Lynch

  Childhood, Very Happy, Happy Childhood

  David Lynch, Richard A. Barney (2009). “David Lynch: Interviews”, p.182, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

  Criss Jami

  Thinking, Genius, Lost

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.77, Criss Jami

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• I always think I could play a fantastic psychopath. I'd like to play a psycho. With a heart, you know. A caring lunatic.

  Nick Frost

  Heart, Caring, Thinking

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• Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse.

  Robert D. Hare

  Opportunity, Views, Psychology

  Robert D. Hare (2011). “Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us”, p.174, Guilford Press

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• I'm not a psychopath-I'm wearing a tie!

  Seth Godin

  Ties

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• The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Success, Truth, Liars

  H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

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• Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath--and the God of Nature too. If you can't see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.

  Sam Harris

  Eye, Reality, Our World

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• When stepping into the mind of a psychopath, you realize that there is something missing in their brain that they do not understand the consequences of their actions- in a sense.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  Missing, Brain, Mind

  "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Hollywood Starlette Lorraine Toussaint". Interview with Kristin Downer, www.nerdprobs.com. November 1, 2015.

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