Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

Sociopath is a word that has sort of become shorthand for psychopath and there's a distinct difference, it's interesting if you look it up. Sociopath if you look at the medical definition, the profile of a sociopath is that they are supremely intelligent people that are also pathological liars, they have no moral structure and there is one more, they have no compassion or empathy for other people.

Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath.

There's a book called "The Sociopath Next Door." I thought most sociopaths were violent. In fact, they aren't. But almost all sociopaths want to win, no matter what.

Perhaps it had nothing to do with sin and everything to do with sociopathy, that most incurable of human disorders because all so afflicted consider themselves blessed rather than cursed.

I don't have sociopathic tendencies!

People who cannot feel punish those who do.

A sociopath will do anything to win. Anything.

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

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.

I always wonder about psychopaths, just because they have no empathy, does that necessarily mean they enjoy being cruel? Because we all know people who seem to have no empathy that we work with; they're not necessarily cruel.

A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.

Goddamn bitch set me up!

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

Everyone has friends or people they know, while they aren't definitively sociopaths, they have sociopathic qualities.

If you're a sociopath, you don't get emotional cues.

I think people throw the term 'sociopath' around a lot without knowing what it means - but people who don't understand that what they're doing is mean and wrong and cruel, they need to be made to understand that.

The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.

It was easier when all we wanted to do was eat them and take their stuff,” he grumbled. And it had been easier when he hadn’t cared if he made any of them cry.

I don’t like being threatened, lied to, or manipulated. You’d do well to remember that. (Simone) Or what? You’re going to snivel at me? (Xypher)

People with antisocial personality disorders aren't automatically bad - they simply approach the world with a more ruthless set of lenses. The lack of empathy or very weak empathy and the ability to read other people's weak spots can be a flammable combination when you get in the way of something they want. But they aren't a different species. They're a part of our spectrum.

If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

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

Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees.

I’ve made my life’s work spotting assholes. And you know, I think it’s harder now than ever before because there’s so many socially acceptable ways to exhibit a pathological lack of empathy.

Somebody who attacks everybody has something missing.