Robert D. Hare Quotes

People with psychopathy are very good at reading the minds of their victims. That's probably most clearly seen in deception.

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

There's a certain type of sociopathy to many schemers.

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.

A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.

I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

The best confidence artist makes us feel not as if we're being taken for a ride but as if we are genuinely wonderful human beings who are acting the way wonderful human beings act and getting what we deserve.

At least she had a clear picture of what the Lying Game was now: Girl Scouts for psychopaths.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

A certain portion of the human race / Has certainly a taste for being diddled.

It was difficult to contradict this artist—this seducer.

I've met my share of guys who have insulted and assaulted my intelligence with their stories and games. I say hello and goodbye!

You're stealing people's secrets. You convince them to give up their life and imagine the life you've created is real or more interesting. If it's a good play, they'll cry or think private thoughts about their lives or laugh.

I've been a big blagger all my life.

People can take, take, take from you. There are people whose profession is to do that. It's entertainment at the cost of human lives.

I felt cheated because a lot of people wanted a relationship with my father, and they played me.

When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.

He [Ranger] peeled my [Stephanie] clothes off and wrangled me into bed. And then suddenly he was inside me. He once told me that time spent with him would ruin me for all other men. When he said it, I thought it was an outrageous threat. I no longer though it outrageous.

I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person.

Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.

As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.

There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.

To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.

Actually, it’s my younger brother who has me ticked, but since you brought up the boyfriend thing, take my advice; Be the black widow. Find a guy, have fun with him, then eviscerate him in the morning before he can brag about it to his friends. (Chrissy)