History Quotes / TheSociopath

-->-- '''[[Characters/StreetFighterSeth Seth]]''', describing Juri in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV''[[note]]Not that he is any better.[[/note]]

-->-- '''Film/JamesBond Wiki''' description of the most recent incarnation of '''Ernst Stavro Blofeld''' from ''Film/{{Spectre}}''

-->-- '''Seth''', describing Juri in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV''[[note]]Not that he is any better.[[/note]]

-->-- '''Princess Peach''' on '''Bowser''' in ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie''

-->-- Kanao Tsuyuri to [[spoiler:Doma]], ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba''

->''"I understand love, and I say to you... love is worthless. I've never needed anyone to satisfy me. [[TheHedonist I eat when I wanna eat, play with what amuses me, and kill whoever's in my way.]] [[ForTheEvulz I live as befits my nature.]] If no one can grasp that, then that's their problem.''"

->''"People born into this world can feel joy, sadness, rage and other emotions so strongly they tremble. But that's all a mystery to you isn't it? You've never felt happiness. Felt enjoyment. Felt pain. Felt bitterness. In fact, you're nothing but an empty shell. It's quite comical, it's so stupid. Why were you even born?"''

-->-- [[Spoiler:Kanao Tsuyuri]] to [[Spoiler:Doma]], ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba''

-->-- '''Rod Serling''', ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E26Execution Execution]]"

-->-- '''Narration''', ''Manga/WolfGuyWolfenCrest''

-->-— '''The Joker''', ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}[=/=]Radio/TheShadow''

->''...any therapy would likely further enable his abilities to manipulate others. His intelligence and superficial charm, combined with his pathologic egocentricity and internalized morality, make him a dangerous individual deserving of clinical management and incarceration. He is driven by some, as yet, undefined goal. Kira's targeting of criminals gives a certain mask of sanity and 'goodness' in terms of his reasoning, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist but, due to his narcissism and deep-rooted antipathy, I doubt that they are exclusively or will remain his true aim of attack]].''

->''"Silva's a {{loan shark}}. Shakes people down for money when they can't afford it. Dad took out some loans to him to keep up paying for the bills on our place. And the one time he couldn’t pay up enough, that's when he decided to take someone from him. Mom. Dad told me he’s ruthless. He'd kill someone with a smile and go off to have lunch in twenty minutes. Wouldn't even ruin his appetite."''

->'''Raiden''': Tormented? ''[chuckles]'' You have eyes, but will not see. I am merely--\\
'''Kung Jin''': ''[cutting off Raiden]'' [[ShutUpHannibal Oh, shut up already]]! Why don't you just admit it? [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist You don't care about protecting Earthrealm. All you care about is power]]. You like torturing and killing other people because it makes you feel good. You don't give a damn for anybody who suffers or dies at your hands because you enjoy putting them through that agony! That's exactly how Shao Kahn would act!

-->-— '''Dr. Mabuse''', ''Film/DrMabuseTheGambler''

->''"Yes, first, they stay about this far away. Just because you know — you never know. Now I get that kind of reaction. And as Marnie, they did too. Because they worried I was going to judge or yell at them. So I'm kind of used to that. But, yeah, they would say, like, 'She was hypnotized, right?' And I'm like 'No. She's just evil. How hard is that to accept? She's bad.' We gave you so many ways to know that she's' bad. She has photos of people whose lives she ended behind her. That's so crazy. And they're still like 'But maybe she's also a victim?' I'm like 'No! No!'"''

->''I was so believable today, wasn't I? I mean, I told so many lies that I actually started to believe them.''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:Jill Roberts]]''', ''Film/Scream4''

->[[ConsummateLiar When does telling the truth ever help anybody?]]

->''"Some will be caught, others killed. I couldn’t care less. These men are amateurs who were needed, so to speak, for the crowd scenes. They are extras, Mr Bond, brought in off the streets. What happens to them after the play is of no interest to me whatsoever."''

->His main problem seems to be that he sees things differently from other people, in that he sees other people as things. This gets him into a spot of trouble early on, as his assassinations often include the brutal murders of not just the target, but also their family, their servants, and very often their pets.

->''"For [[DiabolicalMastermind Truro Daine]], human life is a poor commodity. Like many great men -- and I do not begrudge him that epithet -- he has a deep-seated belief that other people aren't real. In his UsefulNotes/{{solipsism}}, he has experimented with murder on an unprecedented scale, convincing himself with each zilched life that he alone is truly sapient. That is a crucial insight. Tag it well. Of course, his basic problem is common or garden homicidal mania. It's been treatable for fifty years. It would lead another man to become a mercenary or a serial killer, but Truro Daine is not another man, he is the third or fourth loftiest intelligence in the world. Had he chosen to live within the fold, he would undoubtedly become richer through the income of his patents than he was through theft, extortion, terror-for-hire, blackmail and the black economy. He could have been very high in the Gunmint. But that would have bored him zoidal."''

->''He knew he ''should'' feel bad for the dork, but he only felt annoyed. He felt worse about the fact that he ''didn’t'' feel bad than he did about what he’d just read.''
-->-- '''Regent''', ''Literature/{{Worm}}''

'''Murdock:''' A sociopathic personality is simply a person who feels no emotion... no love, no pain, nothin'. Course, they learn to fake these things very well. But they could kill without regard... and then pass a lie detector test with impunity.

-> '''Efraim Diveroli:''' [[ConsummateLiar When does telling the truth ever help anybody?]]
-->-- ''Film/WarDogs''

->''"I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents. Some you can see, misshapen and horrible, with huge heads or tiny bodies; some are born with no arms, no legs, some with three arms, some with tails or mouths in odd places. They are accidents and no one's fault, as used to be thought. Once they were considered the visible punishment for concealed sins. And just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters born? The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul? Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or a less degree. As a child may be born without an arm, so one may be born without kindness or the potential of conscience. A man who loses his arms in an accident has a great struggle to adjust himself to the lack, but one born without arms suffers only from people who find him strange. Having never had arms, he cannot miss them. Sometimes when we are little we imagine how it would be to have wings, but there is no reason to suppose it is the same feeling birds have. [[EvilCannotComprehendGood No, to a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself. To the inner monster it must be even more obscure, since he has no visible thing to compare with others]]. [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous]]. It is my belief that Cathy Ames was born with the tendencies, or lack of them, which drove and forced her all of her life. Some balance wheel was misweighed, some gear out of ratio. She was not like other people, never was from birth. And just as a cripple may learn to utilize his lack so that he becomes more effective in a limited field than the uncrippled, so did Cathy, using her difference, make a painful and bewildering stir in her world."''

->''William Afton was the one who made Freddy's a business, as he had the previous restaurant. Afton was as robust and lively as Henry was withdrawn and shadowy. He was a hefty man who had the ruddy geniality of a financially shrewd Santa Claus. And he had killed the children. Clay knew it; the whole department knew it. He had been present for each abduction, and he had mysteriously and briefly vanished at the same time as each child went missing.''

->''"His main problem seems to be that he sees things differently from other people, in that he sees other people as things. This gets him into a spot of trouble early on, as his assassinations often include the brutal murders of not just the target, but also their family, their servants, and very often their pets."''

->''"Sir Mulberry Hawk was remarkable for his tact in ruining, by himself and his creatures, young gentlemen of fortune -- a genteel and elegant profession, of which he had undoubtedly gained the head. With all the boldness of an original genius, he had struck out an entirely new course of treatment quite opposed to the usual method; his custom being, when he had gained the ascendancy over those he took in hand, rather to keep them down than to give them their own way; and to exercise his vivacity upon them openly, and without reserve. Thus, he made them butts, in a double sense, and while he emptied them with great address, caused them to ring with sundry well-administered taps, for the diversion of society."''

->''For Dooku, other beings are mostly abstractions, simple schematic sketches who fall into two essential categories. The first category is Assets: beings who can be used to serve his various interests. The other category is Threats. In this second set, he numbers every sentient being he cannot include in the first. There is no third category. Someday there may not even be a second; being considered a Threat by Count Dooku is a death sentence.''

->''"[[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] is Franchise/{{Superman}}'s sworn archenemy. If the alien Superman embodies selflessness, Earth's own son Luthor is [[ItsAllAboutMe selfishness personified]]. He uses his genius-level intellect and driving ambition only to advance himself and crush others. Even without superpowers, Lex is easily the most dangerous human being on the planet.\\

-->-- '''Majora''' to '''Link''', ''WebVideo/DouchebagLink''

-->-- '''Joseph Joestar''' to '''Enya''', ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders''

-->-- '''Narriation''', ''Manga/WolfGuyWolfenCrest''