Psychopathic Quotes

• Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

  Anton Chekhov

  Hypocrisy, States

  Letter to I.L. Leontev, August 29, 1888.

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• It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.

  Dan Wells

  People, Killers, Bigs

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• It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Elements, Movement, Revolution

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• He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence

  Jack Kerouac

  Fate, Psychosis, Violence

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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• Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fear, Patriotic, Patriotism

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• Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

  Alexei Sayle

  Funny, Stupid, President

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• The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.

  Boris Sidis

  Community, Diagnosis, Recognition

  "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 275), 1922.

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• I like to imagine, if I was in the 1930s and was rich and a psychopathic killer, I probably would be moving about very freely and having a lot of fun.

  Evan Peters

  Fun, Moving, Killers

  Source: collider.com

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• When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.

  William James

  Bipolar, Genius, Kind

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.29, Library of America

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• Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Notebook, Teacher, Moving

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.30, New Society Publishers

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• The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.

  Joel Bakan

  Personality, Corporations, Profit

  Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Jews, I know you're God's chosen people and the rest of us are just 'whatever', but when Israel behaves like a violent, psychopathic bully and someone mentions it, that doesn't make them anti-Semitic.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Israel, People, Bully

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• A non-Muslim is a second-class citizen called a Kafir. You and I are Kafirs. Much of the Koran concerns itself with the Kafir - how to control us, to subjugate us and to kill us. “Islam has the mind of a psychopathic rapist and because its founder, the “prophet” Mohammed was in fact a psychopathic rapist himself.

  Eric Allen

  Class, Mind, Islam

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• [Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and Iraq the property of a psychopathic crime family. Now, I'm sorry to say, I've no patience with that leftist mentality anymore.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Sorry, Iraq, Bosnia

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• The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Two, Ignorant Masses, Support

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• There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Science, Expression, Understanding

  Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin, Paul H. Gebhard (1998). “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female”, p.195, Indiana University Press

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• I seek a diverse spectrum of roles. If I just was in a large-budget feature for a younger audience, then I want to find a smaller, more character-driven piece that might be for a more mature audience. Or if I'm playing a goofier character, then maybe I want to go play a serious, psychopathic character. But at the same time, it's usually a case-by-case basis where I'm judging the merit of a role by the script I'm given, and it usually has less to do with the larger framework and more to do with how the part personally appeals to me in that moment.

  Cameron Monaghan

  Character, Judging, Serious

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Joker is a psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.

  Heath Ledger

  Zero, Thinking, Night

  "In Stetson or Wig, He’s Hard to Pin Down". Interview with Sarah Lyall, www.nytimes.com. November 4, 2007.

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• It could be worse," he said finally. "Efrenia married an arsonist. Jake's wife is a kleptomaniac. I suppose, a psychopathic spree killer isn't that odd of a choice, considering.

  Ilona Andrews

  Wife, Choices, Jake

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.282, NYLA

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• I love it [a career as an actor] to bits, but it's highly bizarre, especially when you're playing a psychopathic rapist with various diseases.

  David Oakes

  Careers, Actors, Disease

  Source: collider.com

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• There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.

  Jon Ronson

  Looks, Banking, Rewards

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• Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Christian, Taken, Government

  "Custodians of chaos", www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2006.

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• Accurate scholarship can
  unearth the whole offence
  from luther untill noe
  that has driven a culture mad.
  From what occured at linz
  what huge imago made
  a psychopathic god.
  i and the public know
  what all schoolchildren learn
  those to whom evil is done
  do evil in return.

  W. H. Auden

  Evil, Mad, Culture

  "September 1, 1939" l. 19 (1939)

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• Our ability to factory farm animals is coldly psychopathic.

  Eden Robinson

  Animal, Factories, Ability

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the women in all these countries have been driven back into medieval situations. Women who were liberated, women who were doctors and lawyers and poets and writers and - you know, pushed back into this Shia set against Sunnis. The U.S. is supporting al-Qaeda militias all over this region and pretending that it's fighting Islam. So we are in a situation that is psychopathic.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, War, Fighting

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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