Denzel Washington Quotes

I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

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

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.

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 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.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.

Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.

A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.

We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp.

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.

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.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

It takes two to corrupt – the corrupted and the corrupter.

Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.

They lied, they cheated, they stole, they had the power to do it and they did.

Politics is so corrupt that even the dishonest people get fucked.

Football is not a sport populated by honest people. You can't tell the truth or be up front with people. It's a business, and no one is friends.

I would never manipulate somebody and put somebody in peril so that I could get rich off of it.