Sociopathology Quotes & Sayings

Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay ... cats were all about using people — Jonathan Franzen

When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used. — Warren Farrell

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself — Ryszard Kapuscinski

Dashes and disappointments are not canonical Scripture. — Samuel Rutherford

Anything free is worth what you pay for it. — Robert A. Heinlein

I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently. — Joely Fisher

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. — Jonathan Franzen

He had never regarded other men as anything but puppets of a sort, created to fill up an empty world. He divided them into two classes: those he greeted because some chance had put him in contact with them, and those he did not greet. But both these categories of individuals were equally insignificant in his eyes.
("An Old Man") — Guy De Maupassant

Every one who has taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it that makes a difference. — Nolan Bushnell

There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul. — R. Alan Woods

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears — Nassim Nicholas Taleb