{"quotes":[{"text":"But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves.","author":"H.G. Wells","tags":["character","sociopath","sociopathy","weakness"],"id":7070,"author_id":"H.G.+Wells"},{"text":"I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having clawed his way to wealth through the souls and bodies of men, spent many years trying to buy back the love he had forfeited and by that process performed great service to the world and, perhaps, had much more than balanced the evils of his rise. I was on a ship when he died. The news was posted on the bulletin board, and nearly everyone recieved the news with pleasure. Several said, 'Thank God that son of a bitch is dead.'Then there was a man, smart as Satan, who, lacking some perception of human dignity and knowing all too well every aspect of human weakness and wickedness, used his special knowledge to warp men, to buy men, to bribe and threaten and seduce until he found himself in a position of great power. He clothed his motives in the names of virtue, and I have wondered whether he ever knew that no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love. A bribed man can only hate his briber. When this man died the nation rang with praise...There was a third man, who perhaps made many errors in performance but whose effective life was devoted to making men brave and dignified and good in a time when they were poor and frightened and when ugly forces were loose in the world to utilize their fears. This man was hated by few. When he died the people burst into tears in the streets and their minds wailed, 'What can we do now?' How can we go on without him?' In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, mo matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror....We should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["death-bed","east-vs-west","integrity","lee-atwater","man","narcissism","narcissism-epidemic","occupy-wall-street","salvation","salvation-from-jesus","salvation-in-death","sin","sin-and-salvation","sinners","sociopaths","sociopaths-and-psychopaths","sociopathy","steve-jobs","the-devil","the-rich","the-wealthy","wealth","wealth-and-virtues"],"id":64373,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"The only crime is pride.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["american-culture","decline-of-western-civilization","ethics-and-moral-philosophy","morality","narcissism","narcissism-epidemic","narcissists","pride","reality-tv","religion","secular-morality","secularism","self-pity","sin","sociopath","sociopaths","sociopathy"],"id":96385,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...Cats were all about using people.","author":"Jonathan Franzen","tags":["animal-kindness","animals","cats","cats-being-needed","dogs","dogs-and-cats","invasive-species","narcissism","selfishness","sociopath","sociopathology","sociopathy"],"id":104505,"author_id":"Jonathan+Franzen"},{"text":"As I've gotten older, I have taught myself to act 'normal.' I can do it well enough to fool the average person for a whole evening, maybe longer. But it all falls apart if I hear something that elicits a strong emotional reaction from me that is different from what people expect. In an instant, in their eyes, I turn into the sociopathic killer I was believed to be forty years ago.","author":"John Elder Robison","tags":["act","aging","asperger-s","asperger-s-syndrome","aspergers","average","emotional","fool","killer","normal","normalcy","older","person","reaction","sociopath","sociopathic","sociopathy","taught","teach"],"id":144984,"author_id":"John+Elder+Robison"},{"text":"When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood.","author":"M.E. Thomas","tags":["expectations","feminism","feminist","gender","gender-roles","gender-stereotypes","misogynist","misogyny","psychopath","psychopathy","religion","society","sociopath","sociopathy","women"],"id":211872,"author_id":"M.E.+Thomas"},{"text":"Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.","author":"Khaled Hosseini","tags":["evil","psychopathy","sociopathy"],"id":246794,"author_id":"Khaled+Hosseini"},{"text":"Donald Trump has been called, by psychologists and clinical psychologists, over and over again, a narcissist with multiple sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies.","author":"Gizmo","tags":["donald-trump","narcissism","psychology","psychopath","sociopaths","sociopathy"],"id":281069,"author_id":"Gizmo"},{"text":"Sociopaths are attracted to politics because the see it as a sphere in which you can be ruthless and step all over people. That fact that some politicians can tell such awful lies is another example of sociopathy. Sociopaths lie—they see nothing wrong with it.","author":"Alexander McCall Smith","tags":["donald-trump","liars","lies","politicians","politics","sociopaths","sociopathy"],"id":290223,"author_id":"Alexander+McCall+Smith"},{"text":"Whoever controls the money controls you.","author":"Sharon Law Tucker","tags":["control","controlling-partner","life","manipulation","money","money","personality-disorder","personality-disorders","on-money","on-relationships","relationship","relationships","sociopath","sociopaths","sociopathy","toxic-people"],"id":291737,"author_id":"Sharon+Law+Tucker"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}