A Quote by Bob Altemeyer

I have never said authoritarians are pathological — © Bob Altemeyer
I have never said authoritarians are pathological

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Bob Altemeyer
Born: June 6, 1940
Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!
Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth.
Dan Coats, retiring senator from Indiana, a mild-mannered man, a former United States ambassador to Germany, former congressman, said of Ted Cruz he's the most self-centered, narcissistic, pathological liar I have ever seen.And he said, you can quote me on that.
I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that.
Audacity is the currency for authoritarians.
Donald Trump is a pathological liar. We have never - our campaign does not believe and never will encourage anybody to disrupt anything. I would hope that Mr. Trump tones it down big time.
We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.
One of the things that authoritarians hate is the sound of laughter.
Most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily.
Pathological states are the consequence of several determinate factors acting simultaneously...The manifestations of any given agent differ profoundly from one person to another. ...Each noxious agent can express itself by a great variety of different pathological states. ...Different agents can elicit similar reactions. ...The total environment and the (interior medium) constitute a multifactorial system.
Let me be very blunt: the heterosexual transmission of AIDS is, in Africa, a function of truly pathological promiscuity. So this is really a violence issue - not the same violence we deal with in Boston, where teenagers stab and shoot each other, but the violence of African men who are killing themselves, and killing African women and children, with pathological promiscuity.
Nationalism has nothing to do with democratic values: Authoritarians can be nationalists; indeed, most are.
Victimize gun owners, then blame the victims. That's the Chicago Way, and it will never change as long as city bosses are pathological in their hatred of our civil rights.
History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled.
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