Psychopathy

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In the desert, an old monk once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.

—Loren Eiseley

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I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible.

—Donald Trump

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Ignoring the signs of mental instability in a leader can have grave consequences for public safety and national security.

—Bandy X. Lee

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I saw a werewolf drinking a piña colada at Vic’s. His hair was perfect.

—Warren Zevon

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Beautiful teeth
like wolves’

—Allysen Callery

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The devil hath power
t'assume a pleasing shape.

—William Shakespeare

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Since adolescence I have wondered why so many people take pleasure in humiliating others. Clearly the fact that some are sensitive to the suffering of others proves that the destructive urge to hurt is not a universal aspect of human nature.

—Alice Miller

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It is easy, terribly easy, to shake a man’s faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man’s spirit is devil’s work.

—George Bernard Shaw

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It may be that we are puppets—puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.

—Stanley Milgram

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The man who knows how to split the atom but has no love in his heart becomes a monster.

—Krishnamurti

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Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought, for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. That is the banality of evil.

—Hannah Arendt

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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If the majority knew of the root of this evil, then the road to its cure would not be long.

—Albert Einstein

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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.

—James Baldwin

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You win a prize for that
For telling lies like that

—10,000 Maniacs

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Towards anti-social
So low, so low

—Wipers via Nirvana

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I’m the one with no soul.

—Courtney Love

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It is a quite special, secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them.

—Adolf Hitler

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Poem: thirteen of twenty-four

Vic the path

Antisocial personality disorder

On psychopathy

Sociopath: A Memoir

What it’s like to be a sociopath

The sociopaths among us—and how to avoid them

The Dark Triad: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy

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