Joseph Wambaugh Quotes

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

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

Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees.

Sociopaths don't have feelings; they can't.

I don't have sociopathic tendencies!

Anybody could be a sociopath. Anybody.

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.

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.

And your excuse?' I asked. 'I'm a sociopath; I don't have to be nice,' Nicky said. I gave him a look. 'You're mad at him.I can feel it; which means I really don't have to be nice to him.' 'I thought you were friends.' 'What part of sociopath didn't you understand?' he asked.

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.

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

Part of being a psychopath is an ability to dissociate from one reality and create another one, completely.

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.

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

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

At the end of our conversation she (Martha Stout) turned to address you, the reader. She said if you're beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you're feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one.

What my research told me is that a psychopath cannot change. You're born like that.

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.

McCain might have suffered hardships in his life, but what had happened to him had nothing to do with his background or his color; they were convenient excuses now. He had been a psychopath from the start.

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.

Trump is a narcissistic sociopath; he's doing exactly what he said he would do.

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

My specialty is detached malevolence.

To be able to shut off your emotions drastically, I think that the only way you can do that is if you have some of sociopathic qualities.