A Quote by Robert D. Hare

People tend to think of psychopaths as criminals. In fact, the majority of psychopaths aren't criminal.

Robert D. Hare

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Robert D. Hare
Canadian - Psychologist
Born: 1934

I think there were six or eight weeks between 'Total Recall' and 'Seven Psychopaths.' I was at home in Los Angeles for 'Seven Psychopaths,' so it was the first time I had worked from my house here so it was great to be around the kids.

Colin Farrell

Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes to understand that psychopaths can be entrepreneurs, politicians, CEOs and other successful individuals who may never see the inside of a prison.

Robert D. Hare

Daesh is attacking us. Their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, wants to destroy the Saudi state. These people are criminals. They're psychopaths.

Adel al-Jubeir

The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just there. They torment their spouse by being unempathic, but they don't beat her or kill her. They bully coworkers, but they don't burn the office. They are not dramatic. They are pernicious. Most psychopaths are subtle. They are more like poison than a knife, and they are more like slow-working poison than cyanide.

Sam Vaknin

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge.

Jeffrey Kluger

Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest - have some kind of dignity or worth that no elephant, pig, or chimpanzee can ever achieve, we see that this question is as difficult to answer as our original request for some relevant fact that justifies the inequality of humans and other animals.

Peter Singer

I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it.

Sean Bean

There are some people who always feel happy. They're called psychopaths

Tal Ben-Shahar

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.

Ruth Rendell

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

Criss Jami

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

Ruth Rendell

I read a lot of books about psychopaths. I read a wonderful book Amy Hempel gave me about the guy who created criminal profiling - a fascinating book, 'Mind Hunter.'

Mona Simpson

You have psychopaths and sociopaths in charge.

Gerald Celente

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

Robert D. Hare

In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently what is often regarded as "political" activity is in fact a criminal activity.