Ralph Fiennes Quotes

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.

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

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

There's not a lot of arc in an actual psychopath.

All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyone, including the experts, can be taken in, conned, and left bewildered by them. A good psychopath can play a concerto on anyone's heart strings.

Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.

I once read somewhere that, in any relationship, the one who cares the least is the one with all the power.

A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.

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

In 'Fifty Shades,' seemingly, Christian has all the power and control - but actually, Anastasia does.

I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population. You'll find them in any organization where, by the nature of one's position, you have power and control over other people and the opportunity to get something.

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

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.

By exploiting envy and fear, politicians can portray themselves as the saviors and protectors of the public — doing and saying whatever is necessary to gain the support needed to remain in power.

Some people get a feeling of power from being unpleasant.

Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

I want to make her cry and then lick up the tears.

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.

I like to make them squirm.

When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for your own happiness. Authority as you usually think of it, is merely the excues the strone ones use to make others conform to what they want.

A little tip for you, Winged Wonder. Don't threaten the woman you want to seduce." See Annabelle take control. He reached out, gently brushed his fingertip along her collarbone. "If it means saving your life, I'll do more than threaten you. I'll follow through. Best you realize that now, rather than cry foul later.