“Lastly, after talking to hundreds of victims over the years, it bears repeating here and that is, 'You have no social obligation to be tormented or to be victimized—ever.' Stay safe.”— Joe Navarro, psychologytoday.comTagged: Psychopaths, sociopaths, nomenclature, Disputes About Nomenclature, The Bottom Line
“No matter how safe you think you are, social predators will undermine and get around whatever safety mechanisms you have in place. They lack the ability to be introspective or to restrain themselves from doing harm to society and are quite content violating human rights.”— Joe Navarro, psychologytoday.comTagged: Psychopaths, sociopaths, nomenclature, Disputes About Nomenclature, The Bottom Line
“In talking to victims of social predation for more than thirty-five years and in doing research for various books, I found that victims don’t care whether the person who held a knife to their throat or who took their life’s savings is a psychopath or a sociopath. The only thing they care about is re…”— Joe Navarro, psychologytoday.comTagged: Psychopaths, sociopaths, nomenclature, Disputes About Nomenclature, The Bottom Line
“What predators have in common is a gross disregard for the sanctity of others. For them, the most important priority isn’t living according to a higher social standard, but rather not getting caught.”— Joe Navarro, psychologytoday.comTagged: Psychopaths, sociopaths, nomenclature, Disputes About Nomenclature, The Bottom Line
“Social predators live by taking advantage of others. They come in all varieties, shapes, and forms, from every level of society. Some live lawlessly on the streets, mugging people or worse. Others have respectable jobs where they transact mayhem. They see themselves as unrestrained by rules or laws.”— Joe Navarro, psychologytoday.comTagged: Psychopaths, sociopaths, nomenclature, Disputes About Nomenclature, The Bottom Line