Chris Hayes Quotes

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.

Avoid the poison in your life that brings you turmoil.

Never try to pull someone up who doesn't want it...they'll just pull you down.

I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day.

Insanity is just a state of mind.

Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

Books are the curse of the human race.

As the week's events on reality television demonstrate, there is an ugly underbelly in society only too ready to point the finger at the foreigner, or those who might not fit in. [on celeb big brother

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.

Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.

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.

Since there are so many idiots out there, you may actually start to think you're crazy. You are not. They are idiots.

If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into – or remain – whoever we surround ourselves with. We can choose our tribe, but we cannot change that our tribe is our destiny.

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

Some people give gifts in order to bewilder, confuse, and manipulate their recipients.

It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real.

Negative talking is contagious.

Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes to understand that psychopaths can be entrepreneurs, politicians, CEOs and other successful individuals who may never see the inside of a prison.

We have treatments for disturbed persons, Nicholas. But, at least for the time being, we have no treatment for disturbing persons.

Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.

Watching Life on Mars was quite frightening for me because dipping in and out of reality was quite like myself