“Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back.” — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
If you don't have a conscience, what is your behavior like? Apparently, if you don't have a conscience, if you don't really… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
Conscience is the still small voice that has been trying since the infancy of our species to tell us that we are… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
An intelligent sociopath can learn the rules about what's good and what's bad, what people see as good and bad. But they… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
People ask me many times, "Aren't you afraid you're going to scare people? Aren't you afraid you're going to make people feel… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
“A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection,… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
Conscience is a creator of meaning. As a sense of constraint rooted in our emotional ties to one another, it prevents life… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
“Unless under the spell of a psychotic delusion, extreme rage, inescapable deprivation, drugs, or a destructive authority figure, a person who is… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
The central trait of sociopathy is a complete lack of conscience, which is very difficult for most people to get their heads… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
“To admit that some people literally have no conscience is not technically the same as saying that some human beings are evil,… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
“The panicked feeling of a guilty conscience never squeezes at your heart or wakes you in the middle of the night. Despite… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
The reason I want to explain that you're probably never going to get revenge a sociopath and you're also probably not going… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
When I speak of divisions greater than gender or race, I say that because it is so unimaginable. I can imagine what… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
If you have reached the point where you're certain that person has no conscience, or is in it to win rather than… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
Usually sociopaths will look down upon us for that very reason - that we're gullible. We're weak. One person told me that… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
“A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she… — Martha Stout Copy Share
I would hesitate to tell people to stop being kind or sympathetic to sociopath. But just like loyalty, some things that can be taken… — Martha Stout Copy Share
“when confronted with a destructive outcome that is clearly their doing, they will say, plain and simple, “I never did that,” and will to… — Martha Stout Copy Share
Usually sociopaths will look down upon us for that very reason - that we're gullible. We're weak. One person told me that he thought… — Martha Stout Copy Share
I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect. — Martha Stout Copy Share
The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely,… — Martha Stout Copy Share
When you were a child, where boredom could actually get to be painful. Sociopaths experience that kind of pain in boredom. And so to… — Martha Stout Copy Share
We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat...By the time she is thirty,… — Martha Stout Copy Share
Most of who we are is our deepest emotions, and someone who cannot feel those emotions in a positive way is never going to… — Martha Stout Copy Share
“Unless under the spell of a psychotic delusion, extreme rage, inescapable deprivation, drugs, or a destructive authority figure, a person who is conscience-bound does… — Martha Stout Copy Share
“If all you had ever felt toward another person were the cold wish to “win,” how would you understand the meaning of love, of… — Martha Stout Copy Share
“And so without our primordial attachments to others, what would we be? Evidently, we would be the players of a game, one that resembled… — Martha Stout Copy Share
When I speak of divisions greater than gender or race, I say that because it is so unimaginable. I can imagine what it would… — Martha Stout Copy Share
