History Quotes / TheSociopath

->''I am the meanest meanie I ever met\\

You ain't seen nothing yet!''

->''"There are many types of monster in this world. Monsters who will not show themselves and cause trouble, monsters who devour dreams, monsters who suck blood, and ''[...]'' monsters who always tell lies. Lying monsters are a real nuisance. They are much more cunning than other monsters. They pose as humans even though they have no understanding of the human heart. They eat even though they've never experienced hunger. They study even though they have no interest in academics. They seek friendship even though they do not know how to love. If I were to encounter such a monster, I would likely be eaten by it. Because, in truth, I am that monster."''
-->-- '''L''', ''Manga/DeathNote''

-->-- '''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica''', describing his ArchEnemy the '''[[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]]'''

-->-- '''Pied Piper''' on '''[[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Joker]]''', ''Franchise/TheFlash''

->''"A lion doesn't pass judgement on a gazelle. Cancer doesn't pass judgement on a brain. I've been saying this all along. [[StrawNihilist Evil doesn't exist. There are only actions.]] We got to the same place -- the top of the food chain -- just on different paths. Mine was more fun."''
-->-— '''[[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]]''', ''Franchise/{{Batman}}''/''Radio/TheShadow''

->''"You see, this place is special, Dick. It is a city of nightmares. And I'm yours. I'm the face you see in the glass. A man with no conscience. No empathy."''
-->-- '''James Gordon, Jr.''', ''ComicBook/BatmanTheBlackMirror''

->''""The fact I derive pleasure from cruelty doesn't make me feel guilty, Frank... guilt is ridiculous. There is no 'good' or 'bad'. There is only pleasure and pain... with no Heaven or Hell at the end of it!""''
-->--'''Colonel De Sade''', ''ComicBook/ThePunisher''

-->-- '''L''''s "Kira" file, ''FanFic/ACureForLove''

-->--'''Kirihara Hitomi''', ''Fanfic/PerfectionIsOverrated''

->'''Tempest Shadow:''' Yes, yes, you are every bit as powerful as I promised, Sire, now, restore my horn and I swear to use my magic to serve you!\\
'''The Storm King:''' ''[[[EvilLaugh laughs]]]'' Who cares about your dinky little unicorn horn?!\\
'''Tempest Shadow:''' But... we... we had an agreement!\\
'''The Storm King:''' Get with the program! [[ILied I used you]]! It's kind of what I do!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017''

'''Syndrome:''' (Chuckles) [[SadisticChoice Show me]].
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''

->'''Miguel:''' I'm your family!\\
'''[[spoiler:Ernesto]]:''' And [[spoiler:Hector]] was my best friend. Success doesn't come for free, Miguel. [[TheUnfettered You have to be willing to do whatever it takes to... seize your moment]]. I know you'll understand.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}''

->'''Terry [=McGinnis=]:''' It's funny. I know about all [[RoguesGallery your other major enemies]], but you never mention [[ComicBook/TheJoker [the Joker]]]. He was [[ArchEnemy the biggest]], wasn't he?\\
'''Batman:''' It wasn't a popularity contest. He was a psychopath. ''[[YouMonster A monster]]''.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''

->''"'Victims'? Don't be melodramatic. Look down there. Tell me, would you really feel any pity if one of those... [[HumansAreInsects dots]] stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare?"''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:Harry Lime]]''', ''Film/TheThirdMan''

->''"I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust."''
-->-- '''Patrick Bateman''', ''Film/AmericanPsycho''

->''"There is no such thing as love, only passion! No luck, only the will to gain power!"''
-->-— '''Dr. Mabuse''', ''Film/DrMabuseTheGambler''

->''"My God! I can't stand any more of this! First you spurn me for Eddie, and then you throw him off like an old overcoat for Rocky! You chew people up and then you spit them out again... I loved you... do you hear me? I loved you! And what did it get me? Yeah, I'll tell you: a big nothing. You're like a sponge. [[AllTakeAndNoGive You take, take, take, and drain others of their love and emotion]]."''
-->-- '''Columbia''' to '''Dr. Frank-N-Furter''', ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''

->''"I met him 15 years ago. I was told there was [[EmptyShell nothing left]]; no reason, no conscience, no understanding in even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this... [[CreepyChild six-year-old child]] with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and... the blackest eyes -- the Devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up, because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was [[MadeOfEvil purely and simply... evil]]."''
-->-- '''Dr. Sam Loomis''' on '''Michael Myers''', ''Film/Halloween1978''

->''"You know what you are? You're the lowest of the low. You use people for your own entertainment, your own little whims and fancies."''
-->-- '''Paul Bradford''' to '''Mestema''', ''Film/TheDungeonmaster''

->''"You can't care about anyone else. Everyone else is an obstacle. You care what an obstacle wants or feels, you're dead. If I cared about anyone or anything, I might have died like so many brilliant women with a drawer full of unseen genius and a heart full of sad bitterness."''
-->-- '''The Baroness''', laying out her life philosophy, ''Film/{{Cruella}}''

->'''Christine Penmark:''' Do you really mean to say that nice family surroundings and advantages could make no difference at all?\\
'''Reggie Tasker:''' Yes. It's as if these children were born blind permanently and you just couldn't expect to teach them to see.\\
'''Christine:''' Well, would you notice any brutish expressions on their faces?\\
'''Reggie:''' Sometimes. But more often they present a more convincing picture of virtue than normal folk.\\
'''Christine:''' But that's horrible!\\
'''Reggie:''' It's just that they are bad seeds. Plain bad from the beginning. And nothing can change them.
-->-- ''Film/TheBadSeed1956''

->''"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!"''
-->-- '''Allison Williams''' on her character of '''Rose Armitage''', ''Film/GetOut2017''

-->-- '''Literature/NicholasNickleby''' and '''Sir Mulberry Hawk's''' confrontation

-->-- '''Vaclav Trefusis,''' ''Literature/TheNightMayor''

-->-- '''Mariko''', ''[[Literature/AsianSaga Shogun]]''

->[on all women] ''You're all a bunch of fuggin' whores.''\\
[on his own men] ''You're all a bunch of dogs.''\\
[on the Japanese] ''You're all deer to track.\\
I HATE EVERYTHING WHICH IS NOT IN MYSELF''
-->-- '''Sgt. Sam Croft''', ''Literature/TheNakedAndTheDead''

->''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.''
-->-- ''Literature/RevengeOfTheSith''

'''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.
-->''Series/TheATeam'', "[[Recap/TheATeamS1E12TillDeathDoUsPart Till Death Do Us Part]]"

->''"Thank you, Nanno. But I'm sorry...I didn't really need your help. I just needed victims. Well, did you think I was stupid? I put up with all the pain and torture, everything they did to me, because I was waiting to get my revenge. I didn't trick you to get me the laptop because I wanted to know what was on it. I just wanted all their clients' information. So I can blackmail them myself. Get it? Their whole business is mine now.''"
-->-- '''Yuri''',''Series/GirlFromNowhere''

->''"But [[spoiler: he]] was not cured, for there was nothing wrong with [[spoiler: him]] in the first place beyond of greed for money and a propensity for wickedness. And for that, I'm afraid, there is no cure."''
-->-- '''Miss Marple''' about [[spoiler: Paul Osbourne]], ''Series/{{Marple}}'', "The Pale Horse"

->''"A true hedonist puts pleasure before everything! Before another's pain, before another's life! People are just... animals!"''
-->--'''Ana Demiachia''', ''Series/FatherBrown''

'''Buzz:''' ''[[{{Beat}} (beat)]]'' Ok, ok. It's so obvious! Zurg's mind control ray! He got to you first.\\

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

'''Black Hole:''' Yeaaah, but, y'know... sh-she was always like this. We were just kinda hoping she'd... ''stop.''\\

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->''Blofeld is an unpredictable, dangerous and utterly ruthless megalomaniac of the most diabolical kind. He is also intensely sadistic and malicious, describing himself to James Bond as 'the author of all your pain'. Throughout the film, he plays cruel and elaborate games with James's mind concerning his past and the people he has lost his entire life -- Vesper, M, his parents, etc. Blofeld also possesses little self-preservation, despite his sophisticated manner.''

->''"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."''

->''The man with the cold voice had killed a woman. He was talking about it without any kind of remorse -- with ''amusement''.''

->''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.''

->'''Murdock''': Sounds like a sociopath.
->'''Jackie''' A what?
->'''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.

->''A mortal driven insane by Malkav loses the capacity to empathize with other people. The person cannot even recognize that other beings ''are'' people. Malkav's Chosen become creatures as amoral as any vampire lost to the Beast, but retaining a human intellect in every other way. These "isolates" treat other people as potentially threatening animals, as competitors for food, or as food themselves. They do not shrink from murder and cannibalism; torture fascinates these human-looking creatures, as they ponder the conundrum of an object that mimics the appearance of pain.''

-> January 1\\

->''[[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.\\
Head of the technological powerhouse [=LexCorp=], Lex is devoted to ridding the world of Superman for the good of humanity -- or rather, for one man: himself. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist His talk of empowering the common man is only a cover]]. Charming, fascinating, and utterly indifferent to the suffering of others, Lex is a true sociopath.''

->''Kefka cares nothing about anyone or anything but himself and he finds no greater joy in life than in inflicting suffering and death unto others. He has no long-reaching goal for his destructive actions, destruction itself is the goal. He manipulates the emotions of others and will readily lie without hesitation, but his purpose for doing this is again usually nothing but his own amusement in tormenting them. Kefka's need to inflict suffering drives him to continuously greater heights to sate his urges, culminating with the ruination of the entire world and the deaths of countless creatures.''

->'''[[spoiler:Alex Mercer]]:''' This... source. It's the key to genetics -- but it's also a machine, churning out the worst viruses ever seen. Things that -- if they got out of the lab -- could literally erase human civilization as we know it.\\

'''[[spoiler:Mercer]]:''' I wasn't paid to feel.

->''Emotional output of this voice extremely weak compared to typical voices. Subject deemed to have unique psychological makeup with almost no emotional fluctuation.''

[[folder:Web Comics]]

-->-- ''WebComic/StrongFemaleProtagonist'', issue 7

-->--''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged''

'''Buzz:''' ''[{{Beat}}]'' Ok, ok. It's so obvious! Zurg's mind control ray! He got to you first.\\

-->--'''Dark Danny''', ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': ''WesternAnimation/TheUltimateEnemy''

-->-- ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'', ''[[Recap/DeathBattleS09E05OmniManVSHomelander Omni-Man VS Homelander]]''

-> '''[[spoiler:Jaune Arc]]:''' What is ''wrong'' with you? How can you be so ''broken'' inside?! To take ''so many lives'', and then come back here and '''''rub it in our faces like it's something to be proud of?! ALL WITH THAT DAMN SMILE ON YOUR FACE!''''' ''Well? SAY SOMETHING!''\\
'''[[spoiler:Cinder Fall]]:''' ...[[ButForMeItWasTuesday Who are you again]]?

->'''Mr. Incredible:''' Realese me...Now!\\

->'''Lisa:''' Congratulations. You're officially a sociopath.\\
'''Bart:''' Hey, at least I'm ''on'' a path.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

->''"He's a {{fat|Bastard}}, {{manipulative|Bastard}}, [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain bigoted, intolerant]] sociopath."''
-->-- '''Kyle''', describing his [[TheFriendNobodyLikes "friend"]] '''Cartman''', ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''

->'''Baron Zemo:''' Your incompetence is unfortunate, Stark. We do not have much time. Zola gave the Enchantress a location. I sent the Crimson Dynamo to delay her, but she will make him talk. She will come here next.\\
'''Iron Man:''' You sent Dynamo to die?\\
'''Zemo:''' That's what a team is for, yes?
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes''

[[folder: Real Life]]

-> ''"They say sociopaths are dangerous because they know the subtleties of social interaction better than most people and they use this knowledge to use and exploit people. Well, it seems to me people with Asperger's are the opposite of sociopaths."''
-->-- ''Alexei Maxim Russell, from Trueman Bradley - Aspie Detective.''

-> ''"What do I think of Jeffrey Dahmer? I don't know the man personally, but I'll tell ya this, that's a good example as to why insanity doesn't belong in the courtroom. Because if Jeffrey Dahmer doesn't meet the requirements for insanity, then I'd hate like hell to run into the guy that does. Beyond that, I have no comment on Jeffrey Dahmer because I'm not Jeffrey Dahmer."''
-->--''John Wayne Gacy''

-> ''" People sometimes say that we lack remorse or guilt like it’s a bad thing"''
--> -- '' M.E. Thomas''

-> ''"Sociopaths do not care about other people, and so do not miss them when they are alienated or gone, except as one might regret the absence of a useful appliance that one has somehow lost."''
--> -- ''Martha Stout''

-> ''"Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to gain pity, sympathy or evoke compassion and thereby get something from another. Caring and conscientious people cannot stand to see anyone suffering and the manipulator often finds it easy to play on sympathy to get cooperation."''
--> -- ''George K. Simon''

-> ''"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"
--> ''Guy de Maupassant, "An Old Man"''

-> ''"Sociopaths are attracted to politics because the see it as a sphere in which you can be ruthless and step all over people. That fact that some politicians can tell such awful lies is another example of sociopathy. Sociopaths lie—they see nothing wrong with it."''
--> ''Alexander McCall Smith, "The Revolving Door of Life"''

-> ''"Donald Trump has been called, by psychologists and clinical psychologists, over and over again, a narcissist with multiple sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies."''
--> ''Gizmo, The Puzzled Puppy, "What Donald Trump Supporters Need to Know: But Are Too Infatuated to Figure Out"''

-> ''" Always keep in mind the existence of those individuals, whether relatives or great friends, who believe that reality must adapt to their immediate impulses and desires. Those who created opportunities to hurt you, and then find it funny to watch your pain, sometimes pointing it out to others, instead of protecting your privacy and helping you comfort yourself."''
--> ''Efrat Cybulkiewicz''

-> ''"The enemy of my enemy is my friend.."''
--> ''old proverb''

-> ''"Sociopaths are often described as being unfeeling towards others, selfishly pursuing their own needs and using aggression to get what they want. Despite a vague sense that sociopathy denotes serious antisocial behaviour, no separate, well-validated assessment instrument for sociopathy exists"''
--> ''Essi Viding, "Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction"''
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-> ''"What do I think of UsefulNotes/JeffreyDahmer ? I don't know the man personally, but I'll tell ya this, that's a good example as to why insanity doesn't belong in the courtroom. Because if Jeffrey Dahmer doesn't meet the requirements for insanity, then I'd hate like hell to run into the guy that does. Beyond that, I have no comment on Jeffrey Dahmer because I'm not Jeffrey Dahmer."''
-->--''UsefulNotes/JohnWayneGacy''

-->-- '''[[spoiler:Celestia Ludenberg]]''' after being caught for murder, ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc''

-->-- '''[[spoiler:Dahlia Hawthorne]]''', ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations''

->'''Terry [=McGinnis=]:''' It's funny. I know about all your other major enemies, but you never mention [[ComicBook/TheJoker [the Joker]]]. He was [[ArchEnemy the biggest]], wasn't he?\\
'''Batman:''' It wasn't a popularity contest. He was a psychopath. [[YouMonster A monster]].