“He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit and his plans. He will show you a good time, but you will always get the bill.”— Robert D. Hare, amazon.com
“Most criminals are not psychopaths, and many of the individuals who manage to operate on the shady side of the law and remain out of prison are psychopaths.”— Robert D. Hare, amazon.com
“Don't waste your sympathy on them; their problems are not in the same league as yours. Theirs stem primarily from not getting what they want, whereas yours result from a physical, emotional, or financial pounding.”— Robert D. Hare, amazon.com
“Their aggressive displays are "cold"; they lack the intense emotional arousal experienced by others when they lose their temper.”— Robert D. Hare, amazon.com
“Their callousness typically emerges in less dramatic, though still devastating, ways: parasitically bleeding other people of their possessions, savings, and dignity; aggressively doing and taking what they want; shamefully neglecting the physical and emotional welfare of their families; engaging in…”— Robert D. Hare, amazon.com
“Psychopaths, however, display a general lack of empathy. They are indifferent to the rights and suffering off family members and strangers alike. If they do maintain ties with their spouses or children it is only because they see their family members as possessions, much like their stereos or automo…”— Robert D. Hare, amazon.com
“When caught in a lie or challenged with the truth, they are seldom perplexed or embarrassed - they simply change their stories or attempt to rework the facts so that they appear to be consistent with the lie.”— Robert D. Hare, amazon.com
“Lying, deceiving and manipulation are natural talents for psychopaths. With their powers of imagination in gear and focused on themselves, psychopaths appear amazingly unfazed by the possibility - or even by the certainty - of being found out.”— Robert D. Hare, amazon.com
“Psychopaths have an ongoing and excessive need for excitement - they long to live in the fast lane or "on the edge," where the action is. In many cases the action involves breaking the rules.”— Robert D. Hare, amazon.com
“Although psychopaths have a "hair trigger" and readily initiate aggressive displays, their ensuing behavior is not out of control. On the contrary, when psychopaths "blow their stack" it is as if they are having a temper tantrum; they know exactly what they are doing.”— Robert D. Hare, amazon.com
“Recognize that you are not alone. Most psychopaths have lots of victims. It is certain that a psychopath who is causing you grief is also causing grief to others.”— Robert D. Hare, amazon.com
“Psychopaths often give the impression that it is they who are suffering and that it is the victims who are to blame for their misery. But they are suffering a lot less than you are, and for different reasons.”— Robert D. Hare, amazon.com
“Everyone is vulnerable to the psychopath, and there is no shame in being victimized. This may be difficult to accept if you have just been conned and are too embarrassed to complain to the police or to testify in court. But you may be surprised by the number of other people in your community who hav…”— Robert D. Hare, amazon.com
“Psychopaths love official jobs...and uniforms.”— Edward Allen Bernero, David Rossi, Joe Mantegna, imdb.com
“Trolls will lie, exaggerate, and offend to get a response. What kind of person would do this? Some Canadian researchers decided to find out. They conducted two online studies with over 1,200 people, giving personality tests to each subject along with a survey about their Internet commenting behavior…”— Dr. Jennifer Golbeck, psychologytoday.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com