Kathryn Schulz 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I don't have sociopathic tendencies!

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

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

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.

Anybody could be a sociopath. Anybody.

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.

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

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.

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.

Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or in society, in the world. They're people who don't feel guilt. They're people who don't feel fear. I think that most of us feel those things. There's a kind of... They're almost like superheroes. Not to glorify them, but you know what I mean?

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.

A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.

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.

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

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

My specialty is detached malevolence.