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e4f2d06 He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart. heart heartless heartlessness horror human-nature monster murder psychopath psychopaths serial-killer soul the-silence-of-the-lambs Thomas Harris
0d2987a There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men. evil hearts lights psychology psychopaths souls Michael Connelly
5778cc7 At the end of our conversation she (Martha Stout) turned to address you, the reader. She said if you're beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you're feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one. psychology psychopaths Jon Ronson
4dcb552 So, whenever the subject of Iraq came up, as it did keep on doing through the Clinton years, I had no excuse for not knowing the following things: I knew that its one-party, one-leader state machine was modeled on the precedents of both National Socialism and Stalinism, to say nothing of Al Capone. I knew that its police force was searching for psychopathic killers and sadistic serial murderers, not in order to arrest them but to them. I knew that its vast patrimony of oil wealth, far from being 'nationalized,' had been privatized for the use of one family, and was being squandered on hideous ostentation at home and militarism abroad. (Post-Kuwait inspections by the United Nations had uncovered a huge nuclear-reactor site that had not even been known about by the international community.) I had seen with my own eyes the evidence of a serious breach of the Genocide Convention on Iraqi soil, and I had also seen with my own eyes the evidence that it had been carried out in part with the use of weapons of mass destruction. I was, if you like, the prisoner of this knowledge. I certainly did not have the option of un-knowing it. ba-ath-party ba-athist-iraq bill-clinton crime-family fascism genocide genocide-convention invasion-of-kuwait iraq iraq-war kuwait militarism national-socialism nationalisation nuclear-reactor-technology oil privatisation psychopaths serial-killers stalinism united-nations wmd Christopher Hitchens
fa8e39d We find people of value,' she said, speaking like a teacher addressing a small child, 'and we determine what story they need to hear. It's the story that they're already telling themselves, don't you see? It's the nightmare they believe in. Once you understand that nightmare, you join them in it. Their fear becomes your fear. It's all a shared experience then. And once you have that, once they feel that is the truth, all the way down to their core, then your coping strategy becomes theirs. It's a natural progression. This is the power of a shared narrative. Of the echo chamber. psychopaths recruiting terrorism Michael Koryta