Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That's what most of my characters are like.
Elmore LeonardTags: wrong right psychopaths
So, whenever the subject of Iraq came up, as it did keep on doing through the Clinton years, I had no excuse for not knowing the following things: I knew that its one-party, one-leader state machine was modeled on the precedents of both National Socialism and Stalinism, to say nothing of Al Capone. I knew that its police force was searching for psychopathic killers and sadistic serial murderers, not in order to arrest them but to employ them. I knew that its vast patrimony of oil wealth, far from being 'nationalized,' had been privatized for the use of one family, and was being squandered on hideous ostentation at home and militarism abroad. (Post-Kuwait inspections by the United Nations had uncovered a huge nuclear-reactor site that had not even been known about by the international community.) I had seen with my own eyes the evidence of a serious breach of the Genocide Convention on Iraqi soil, and I had also seen with my own eyes the evidence that it had been carried out in part with the use of weapons of mass destruction. I was, if you like, the prisoner of this knowledge. I certainly did not have the option of un-knowing it.
Christopher HitchensTags: fascism genocide iraq iraq-war militarism bill-clinton united-nations psychopaths oil national-socialism ba-ath-party ba-athist-iraq al-capone crime-family genocide-convention invasion-of-kuwait kuwait nationalisation nuclear-reactor-technology privatisation serial-killers stalinism wmd
There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.
Michael ConnellyTags: evil darkness psychology souls hearts psychopaths lights
At the end of our conversation she (Martha Stout) turned to address you, the reader. She said if you're beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you're feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one.
Jon RonsonTags: psychology psychopaths martha-stout
It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.
Dan WellsTags: psychopaths killers shock john-cleaver dan-wells identify-with
Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.
Elie WieselTags: evil objectivism atlas-shrugged ayn-rand sociopathy psychopaths psychopathic-personalities psychopathology evil-men the-root-of-evil
I feel I could kill. I feel that I might like it. And I know that this should scare me. But it doesn't. It excites me. I am in Plato's cave, watching the shadows and fraught with the desire to hunt what casts them.
Nenia CampbellTags: murder evil killing psychopaths evil-men
If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us... but they're still fucking psychopaths.
Jonathan KellermanTags: talent truth psychopaths milo-sturgis
While I don't think sociopaths have any sort of moral urge to do good things, I think they can and do act morally in the context of pursuing their own advantage. A good analogy would be a corporation. There are a lot of corporations that do things that you like, maybe even good things, like produce vaccines or electric cars, although the primary motivation is to make a profit. But just because you are trying to make a profit doesn't mean you can't do it by doing things you like, or that you are good at, or that comport with the way you see the world, or want the world to see you.
M.E. ThomasTags: corporations sociopathy psychopaths corporation sociopath companies psychopath bakan
She's sociopathic. She will have no moral compunction in doing whatever is in her interests. It's as simple as that.
Alexander McCall SmithTags: psychopaths sociopaths
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