Psychopathic Traits Quotes

I worked with sociopaths and psychopaths in a mental hospital, and in my opinion, Casey Anthony is not emotionally stable.

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.

Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees.

Psychopaths view any social exchange as a 'feeding opportunity,' a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse.

As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.

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.

Entrepreneurship, to me, means that you're a psychopath. The world doesn't work in the way you want it to, and you have a vision for how it should work. Unlike everyone else, this isn't OK with you. You have to go out, against every possible odd, and do something about it. That's what makes you crazy.

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

The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.

There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population. You'll find them in any organization where, by the nature of one's position, you have power and control over other people and the opportunity to get something.

Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?

I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.

As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.

The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.

One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.

People tend to think of psychopaths as criminals. In fact, the majority of psychopaths aren't criminal.

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

Many psychopaths describe the traditional treatment programmes as finishing schools where they hone their skills. Where they find out that there are lots of techniques they had not thought about before.