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Imagine what it would be like to be completely free of internal restraints, and able to do whatever you feel like doing. Imagine having no conscience and no feelings of remorse or guilt, no matter what nasty things you might do. Imagine a world in which you care only about yourself, about fulfilling your own needs, and have absolutely no concern for the wellbeing of others. Imagine having no sense of responsibility toward others, and giving no thought to the shameful, harmful, or immoral actions that you might take.
Your greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.
—Julius Caesar
It takes many sheep to satisfy one wolf.
—Nenia Campbell
[Classically,] true psychopaths were not successful. For the most part, they were major screw-ups.
—Chris Patrick
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de Vries, M.F.R.K. (2016). The Psychopathic Executive. In: You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger. INSEAD Business Press. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56268-5_6
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