George T. Conway III

Extreme narcissists exaggerate their achievements and talents, and so Trump has spent his life building up a false image of himself - not just for others, but for himself, to protect his deeply fragile ego. He lies endlessly, not just in the way sociopaths do, which is to con others, but also to delude himself.

American Lawyer

Tom Malinowski

There are norms that preserve some equilibrium between chaos and stability in the world; that keep sociopaths like Assad from undermining that equilibrium, and the sense of security without which the freedoms we enjoy cannot exist.

Abby Martin

It's really shocking to see what the military can do, strip you of any personality, turn you into an aggressive, sociopathic sadist before even going into a battlefield.

American Journalist

Ramy Youssef

I think if you make a show where you try to make a character look good, not only is it kind of weird, but it's sociopathic.

American Comedian

Laurell K. Hamilton

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does.

American Writer

Jessica Rothe

I would love to play a sociopath or, like, an unreliable narrator.

American Actress

Sarah Cooper

If you're a sociopath, you don't get emotional cues.

Jamaican Comedian

Jeff Lindsay

Sociopaths don't have feelings; they can't.

American Playwright

Shane Dawson

American Entertainer

Emily VanCamp

Canadian Actress

Sociopath has a strong negative undertone, implying a lack of morality or empathy in behavior.

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Use the term carefully, as it's a serious psychological label often misused to insult someone.

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While used in everyday language, 'sociopath' isn't an official term in clinical psychology anymore.

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 to destroy the world, if only they could get access and the means, that would be good. In this image that you asked us to do you're imagining these drones flying around the world with facial recognition. When they spot someone showing signs of sociopathic behavior, they shower them with love, they fix them.

How civilization could...

 And, "Jonah Lehrer is just a frigging sociopath." That last word is a very human thing to do, to dehumanize the people we hurt. It's because we want to destroy people but not feel bad about it. Imagine if this was an actual court, and the accused was in the dark, begging for another chance,

How one tweet can ruin...

 And here's what it tells you. I'll save you the trouble of reading a half century of social science. The research tells us that everybody has regrets, regrets make us human. Truly, the only people without regrets are five-year-olds, people with brain damage and sociopaths.

4 Kinds of Regret – and...

 Because the inability to experience regret is actually one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths. It's also, by the way, a characteristic of certain kinds of brain damage. So people who have damage to their orbital frontal cortex seem to be unable to feel regret

Kathryn Schulz: Don't...

 Chris it's gonna feel the same everyone sitting in here knows the warm wash of shame we're pretty sure that the only people who don't experience shame are people who have no capacity for connection or empathy which means yes I have a little shame no I'm a sociopath

Listening to shame -...

 You will read that Los Zetas is this assortment of sociopaths that terrify the cities that they enter and they silence the press, and this is somewhat true, or mostly true. But this is the result of a very careful branding and business strategy.

The deadly genius of...

 In the aftermath of horrible atrocities and attacks in places like Belgium, France, but all over the world, sometimes it's easier for us to think, "Well, these must be sociopaths, these must be naturally violent individuals.

How young people join...

 I have been, and I think you would have to be either a sociopath or totally enlightened not to be feeling anxiety at a moment like this. So I would say that the first thing that I would want to encourage everybody to do

It's OK to feel...

 I think it's quite apt. It's our empathy, it's our tuning in which separates us from Machiavellians or sociopaths. I have a brother-in-law who's an expert on horror and terror --

Daniel Goleman: Why...

 Rule greed is not good. Being rapacious doesn't make you a capitalist, it makes you a sociopath.

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