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Robert D. Hare Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“Don't waste your sympathy on them; their problems are not in the same league as yours. Theirs stem primarily from not getting what they want, whereas yours result from a physical, emotional, or financial pounding.”
— Robert D. Hare, Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
Tagged: Psychopaths, High Functioning Psychopaths, The Pity Ploy, Annotated Quotes, Annotation Examples
“He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit and his plans. He will show you a good time, but you will always get the bill.”
— Robert D. Hare, Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
Tagged: Psychopaths, High Functioning Psychopaths, Psychopathy, Lack of Empathy, Narcissistic Supply, The Mark of a Predator, The Price of Victimization
“When caught in a lie or challenged with the truth, they are seldom perplexed or embarrassed - they simply change their stories or attempt to rework the facts so that they appear to be consistent with the lie.”
— Robert D. Hare, Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
Tagged: Psychopaths, High Functioning Psychopaths, Psychopathy, Pathological Lying, Deception, Annotated Quotes
“Their aggressive displays are "cold"; they lack the intense emotional arousal experienced by others when they lose their temper.”
— Robert D. Hare, Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
Tagged: Psychopaths, High Functioning Psychopaths, Self-Control, Cold Rage, Emotional Control, Annotation Examples, Annotated Quotes
“Everyone is vulnerable to the psychopath, and there is no shame in being victimized. This may be difficult to accept if you have just been conned and are too embarrassed to complain to the police or to testify in court. But you may be surprised by the number of other people in your community who have been taken in.”
— Robert D. Hare, Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
Tagged: Psychopaths, High Functioning Psychopaths
“Although psychopaths have a "hair trigger" and readily initiate aggressive displays, their ensuing behavior is not out of control. On the contrary, when psychopaths "blow their stack" it is as if they are having a temper tantrum; they know exactly what they are doing.”
— Robert D. Hare, Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
Tagged: Psychopaths, High Functioning Psychopaths, Self-Control, Cold Rage, Emotional Control, Annotation Examples, Annotated Quotes
“Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.”
— Robert D. Hare, Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
Tagged: Psychopaths, High Functioning Psychopaths
“Their callousness typically emerges in less dramatic, though still devastating, ways: parasitically bleeding other people of their possessions, savings, and dignity; aggressively doing and taking what they want; shamefully neglecting the physical and emotional welfare of their families; engaging in an unending series of casual, impersonal and trivial sexual relationships; and so forth.”
— Robert D. Hare, Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
Tagged: Psychopaths, High Functioning Psychopaths, Psychopathy, Lack of Empathy, Emotional Crimes, Range of Violence, Annotated Quotes, Annotation Examples
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