Robert D. Hare Quotes

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

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.

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.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

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

When affection only speaks, truth is not always there.

They say that I'm very calculated and not very sensitive - that a regular, average person, there are many things that bother them, and I don't see or feel it.

The tragedy of love is indifference.

Oh," he said to Kiyo, voice completely devoid of emotion. "I see. It's your turn again.

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

When stepping into the mind of a psychopath, you realize that there is something missing in their brain that they do not understand the consequences of their actions- in a sense.

Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

If only my heart were stone.

I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?" PITY

Love fattens on smooth words.

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no—sympathy—sentiment—nonsense.

People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.

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.

Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees.

I'm not used to sensitivity any more. When I see people cry when I lose, save your tears. I don't know how to handle people crying any more. I lost my sensitivity like that. Please, you embarrass me when you cry because I don't know what to do when you cry. I don't know what to say.

Failure to love is almost like murder.