Lorraine Toussaint Quotes

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

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

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

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?

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

If you're a sociopath, you don't get emotional cues.

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

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.

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

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.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

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 think the mistake lots of people make when it comes to a psychopath is that they completely write off their actions as cruel, callous and completely calculated, but actually, the truth is that they have interests and reasons behind their actions.

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.

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

We're telling the story of 'Daredevil'. In this aspect, the storylines accentuate the sociopathic tendencies in her. The writers wanted to highlight that Elektra is quite manipulative and doesn't seem to have a conscience.

Anybody could be a sociopath. Anybody.

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.

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.

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

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.