{"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":"People who understand human behavior and personality tend to find flaws in every next person they meet, analyze their actions and develop bit sociopath nature.","author":"Himmilicious","tags":["human-behaviour","psychology","sociopath"],"id":61974,"author_id":"Himmilicious"},{"text":"I wonder if whoever invented World of Warcraft realizes it’s practice for sociopaths.","author":"Lisa Scottoline","tags":["every-fifteen-minutes","lisa-scottoline","obsession","obsessions","sociopath"],"id":85897,"author_id":"Lisa+Scottoline"},{"text":"Sociopath. A label given, and a title received. A definition adorned? Or perhaps a ribbon atop a word.","author":"Gareth Brewer","tags":["emotion","gift","less","sociopath"],"id":90827,"author_id":"Gareth+Brewer"},{"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":"How did he close off that part of his brain that tells someone they've harmed another soul?...Most frighteningly of all, are some of us born with no conscience at all?","author":"Dan Skinner","tags":["conscience","sociopath"],"id":129455,"author_id":"Dan+Skinner"},{"text":"Most fires crackle and pop, but that's not really the fire talking, it's the wood. To hear the fire itself you need a huge blaze like this one, a furnace so powerful it roars with its own wind. I crouched as close as I dared and listened to its voice, a whispered howl of joy and rage.","author":"Dan Wells","tags":["bonfire","fire","pyromania","serial-killer","sociopath"],"id":132265,"author_id":"Dan+Wells"},{"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":"One either cares what others think about him, or cares what others think he thinks about them. If you want to find someone who doesn't care in the slightest what anyone thinks, try a lunatic asylum.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["asylum","brain","care","cognition","compassion","crazy","empathy","honest","hospital","insane","insecurity","lunatic","mental","mental-hospital","pity","psychology","psychopath","sane","security","sociopath","sympathy","think"],"id":146301,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":31,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}