Best Psychopath 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.

I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

I’m not a psychopath, I’m a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.

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.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

Now if you went to someone’s house to look for them, you would be a psychopath.

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

Daesh is attacking us. Their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, wants to destroy the Saudi state. These people are criminals. They’re psychopaths.

I have to admit that Christina is good—though I don’t like giving credit to Candor smart-mouths—and so is Peter—though I don’t like giving credit to future psychopaths.

He bends over to untie his shoes. So, have you been ostracized from your little crowd of devotees? No, I say automatically. Then I add, Maybe. But they aren’t my devotees. Please. They’re like the Cult of Four. I can’t help but laugh. Jealous? Wish you had a Cult of Psychopaths to call your very own?

To a happy war!’ laughter echoed with all the insane glee of an army of psychopaths.

Never angrily rant into your web cam. While smashing a keyboard in half over a game of ‘World of Warcraft’ may seem totally justified in your head, to the rest of the known universe you look like a raging psychopath.

We’re all hoping that Trump doesn’t get our world on his terms because there won’t be anything of it left. Trump is a true psychopath, a psychopath in the way that tragedy becomes tragedy.

A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day’s events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.

Once we ask why it should be that all human beings – including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest – have some kind of dignity or worth that no elephant, pig, or chimpanzee can ever achieve, we see that this question is as difficult to answer as our original request for some relevant fact that justifies the inequality of humans and other animals.

It’s a funny thing, when you talk to God, you’re religious, but when he talks to you, you’re a psychopath.

A sociopath can imitate emotions, where a psychopath really doesn’t have that capacity. They can’t fool people into thinking anything and they’re usually lacking major empathy for anybody besides themselves.

I read as many books about the psychology of a psychopath as I could and I researched what exactly happens to soldiers.

Sociopaths are more complicated psychopaths; the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath is a sociopath is incredibly charming. There are a lot of sociopaths that are CEOs. They don’t necessarily kill people but they’re able to walk into a big social function and make everybody think they’re the kindest, coolest, smartest, most interesting person in the room.

Psychopaths don’t have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They’re more obsessive.

Jesus must have been a psychopath

I had done a little bit one other time. This character [in Jack Reacher] is a psychopath, but I had been hired by Carlton Cuse and Randall Wallace.

The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas.

I always think I could play a fantastic psychopath. I’d like to play a psycho. With a heart, you know. A caring lunatic.

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

Poisoned, pursued and living with a psychopath. Not what I would consider the good life. Death has its perks.

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

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths.

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.

I deal with the depraved, the sick, the pathetic, the disturbing and the profoundly depressed. I will try it all on. I will try on what I am and what I never want to be. And everything I wanted to be, but never can be. I can be a supermodel, or your worst nightmare. Off-stage, I just get to leave it, and nobody thinks I’m like that. This is what prevents me from being a psychopath and a sociopath, my time on stage.

There are some people who always feel happy. They’re called psychopaths

A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads – and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don’t have to become violent in self-defence.

When someone like myself points out the rather obvious and compelling evidence that God is cruel and unjust, because he visits suffering on innocent people of a scope and scale that would embarrass the most ambitious psychopath, we’re told that? God is mysterious.

Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath–and the God of Nature too. If you can’t see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.