Psychopathy Scale Quotes & Sayings

The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far. — Jacques Barzun

What does man actually know about himself? Is he, indeed, ever able to perceive himself completely, as if laid out in a lighted display case? Does nature not conceal most things from him-even concerning his own body-in order to confine and lock him within a proud, deceptive consciousness, aloof from the coils of the bowels, the rapid flow of the blood stream, and the intricate quivering of the fibers! She threw away the key. And woe to that fatal curiosity which might one day have the power to peer out and down through a crack in the chamber of consciousness and then suspect that man is sustained in the indifference of his ignorance by that which is pitiless, greedy, insatiable, and murderous-as if hanging in dreams on the back of a tiger. Given this situation, where in the world could the drive for truth have come from? Insofar as the individual wants to maintain — Friedrich Nietzsche

Even dead fallen leaves go a long way with the wind before getting crushed. — Basith

too young to live, too old to die — Jeffrey Rasley

Killing a man by accident had made her a villain. Killing another on purpose had made her a hero. But all she could do was frown at the body as they dragged it out, and feel there was something very odd in all this. — Joe Abercrombie

By what right do I bend men to my will? Or is there no right, only ability? — Brent Weeks

Poetry, after all, milks the unconscious. — Anne Sexton

Libel settles nothing. — George Orwell

My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me. — Maria Semple

Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale — Kevin Dutton

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. — Jules Verne

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past. — Joan Didion

The harder you work when nobody's watching the less you bleed when it's time to perform. — Brandon Jennings

The results were extraordinary. Over 70 percent of those who scored high on the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale correctly picked out the handkerchief-smuggling associate, compared to just 30 percent of the low scorers. Zeroing in on weakness may well be part of a serial killer's toolkit. But it may also come in handy at the airport. — Kevin Dutton