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#1

“I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: brain, cognition, compassion, control, creative, creative-genius, creativity, disorder, driving, genius, illness, intelligence, knowledge, mental, mental-illness, pain, psychopath, schizophrenia, self-control, sorrow, sympathy, understanding

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#2

“It takes many sheep to satisfy one wolf.”
― Nenia Campbell, Horrorscape

tags: creepy, dark, evolution, gavin, gm, horror, psychopath, sociopath

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#3

“Well there you go. Even a psychopath recognized your worth enough to want to kill someone else first."
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.”
― Richelle Mead, Bloodlines

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#4

“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.”
― M.E. Thomas, Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

tags: feminism, gender, misogyny, psychopathy, religion, society, sociopathy, women

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#5

“I'm an 'intelligent' sociopath. I don't have problems with drugs, I don't commit crimes, I don't take pleasure in hurting people, and I don't typically have relationship problems. I do have a complete lack of empathy. But I consider that an advantage, most of the time. Do I know the difference between right and wrong, and do I want to be good? Sure. ... A peaceful and orderly world is a more comfortable world for me to live in. So do I avoid breaking the law because it's 'right'? No, I avoid breaking the law because it makes sense.”
― M. E. Thomas, Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

tags: law, psychopath, psychopathy, social-stability, society, sociopath, sociopathy

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#6

“God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

tags: cry, crying, cycle, darkness, doom, doomed, god, god-s-creation, hannibal, hell, horror, humanity, insanity, mental-illness, murder, never-ending, prison, psychopath, punishment, serial-killer, serial-killers, sleep, the-silence-of-the-lambs

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#7

“Did you think I'd only want you once? Oh, my, you are more naïve than I thought. Why would I go through so much trouble for a mere tryst? Does a man ride a stallion but one time before condemning it to the abattoir?”
― Nenia Campbell, Terrorscape

tags: desire, one-night-stand, psychopath, sex, wanting

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#8

“Psychopaths [make] the world go around...society [is] an expression of that particular sort of madness...I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?”
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

tags: psychology, psychopath, society

28 likes

#9

“You are so beautiful, I could eat you,” he said.
And it was true. Her smile was as intoxicating as the wine.
And he could eat her.”
― Jonas Eriksson, Everyday Psychopaths

tags: dark-humor, horror-romance, psychopath, thriller

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#10

“Hitler is a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder. Not content with having all Europe under his heel, or else terrorized into various forms of abject submission, he must now carry his work of butchery and desolation among the vast multitudes of Russia and of Asia. The terrible military machine, which we and the rest of the civilized world so foolishly, so supinely, so insensately allowed the Nazi gangsters to build up year by year from almost nothing, cannot stand idle lest it rust or fall to pieces. It must be in continual motion, grinding up human lives and trampling down the homes and the rights of hundreds of millions of men. Moreover it must be fed, not only with flesh but with oil.”
― Sir Winston Churchill

tags: psychopath

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#11

“I realised from quite early on in my childhood that I saw things differently from other people,' he wrote. 'But, more than not, it's helped me in my life. Psychopathy(if that's what you call it) is like a medicine for modern times. If you take it in moderation it can prove extremely beneficial. It can alleviate a lot of existential ailments that we would otherwise fall victim to because our fragile psychological immune systems just aren't up to the job of protecting us. But if you take too much of it, if you overdose on it, then there can, as is the case with all medicines, be some rather unpleasant side effects.”
― Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

tags: psychopath, side-effect

10 likes

#12

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

31561 likes

#13

“And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

tags: feel, manipulation, people, pity, powerful, smarts, sorry, strength

213 likes

#14

“When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

tags: chess-pieces, knowing-your-opponent, manipulation, pawns

422 likes

#15

“You are a manipulator.
I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal

tags: brothers, comedy, dark, euphemism, label, manipulation

1362 likes

#16

“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”
― Criss Jami

tags: agenda, bad-influence, compulsive-liar, controlling, craftsman, deception, destruction, dishonest, influence, lies, manipulation, media, mislead, slander, speak, true

1702 likes

#17

“If you are an approval addict, your behaviour is as easy to control as that of any other junkie. All a manipulator need do is a simple two-step process: Give you what you crave, and then threaten to take it away. Every drug dealer in the world plays this game.”
― Harriet B. Braiker, Who's Pulling Your Strings? How to Break the Cycle of Manipulation and Regain Control of Your Life

tags: addiction, approval-of-others, manipulation

206 likes

#18

“Why am I letting you comfort me?” He stared over her head. Because I’ve made sure you have no one else to turn to.”
― Kresley Cole, Lothaire

tags: anger, confusion, deceit, love, manipulation

78 likes

#19

“Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Scars Of Beauty

tags: amorous, amorous-men, beauty, bodies, body, children, corruption, daughters, discover, discovering, falling, female, girls, immaturity, immoral, immorality, lecher, lecherous, love, lust, lustful, manipulate, manipulation, maturity, men, michael-bassey-johnson, naive, puberty, pubescence, scars, sense, senses, sex, sexual-abuse, sexual-intercourse, sexy, vagina, woman, women, woo

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#20

“The household was pervaded by this atmosphere of a calm adult woman and a man who gave into animal impulses. She reported to him in great detail what her analyst ... said about his binges and his hostility; she used Charley's money to pay Dr. Andrews to catalog his abnormalities. And of course Charley never heard anything directly from the doctor; he had no way of keeping her from reporting what served her and holding back what did not. The doctor, too, had no way of getting to the truth of what she told him; no doubt she only gave him the facts that suited her picture, so that the doctor's picture of Charley was based on what she wanted him to know. By the time she had edited both going and coming there was little of it outside her control.”
― Philip K. Dick, Confessions of a Crap Artist

tags: liars, lifestyle, manipulation, misrepresentation

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#21

“How did you get back?' asked Vautrin.
'I walked,' replied Eugene.
'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.'
'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

tags: extremism, life-philosophy, manipulation

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#22

“Well the other thing about lying is that the liar is banking on two things when telling the lie. They are hoping that the person being lied to is gullible enough to believe, and it’s also not even that they think they are gullible, it’s that they know the person they are lying to well enough that they know the person won’t push it any further because they know the person they are lying to wants to believe the lie.”
― Garry Crystal, And When the Arguing's Over...: Contemporary One Act Plays

tags: lies, lying, manipulation, relationships-love, trust

8 likes

#23

“I don’t like being kidnapped. Or manipulated.”

“I’ve done neither, silly. Though I’d like to hear about your other kidnap incidents. The aspects that put you off the experience.”
― Roberta Pearce, The Value of Vulnerability

tags: humor-irony-death-zombie, kidnapping, manipulation

4 likes

#24

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
― Rita Mae Brown

tags: humor, insanity

12677 likes

#25

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
― Oscar Levant

tags: genius, humor, insanity

9904 likes

#26

“I'll take crazy over stupid any day.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: insanity, stupidity

1818 likes

#27

“If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.”
― Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping

tags: humor, insanity, sanity

1485 likes

#28

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: insanity, misattributed, perseverance, sanity

780 likes