Jeffrey Kluger Quotes

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

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.

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

...it must be clearly proved that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing was wrong; or, if he did know it, that he did not know what he was doing was wrong.

Psychopathy might lurk behind the mask of sanity.

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.

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.

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.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than a particularly awful psychological disorder.

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.

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

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

If you want young people to take right and wrong seriously, you must put them in the presence of people who take right and wrong seriously.

I sometimes wonder if I'm a psychopath.

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

Anybody could be a sociopath. Anybody.

The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.

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

I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?

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.

You're a psychopath." "I prefer creative.

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