I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect. — Martha Stout Drinking Copy Share Image
I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him. — Martha Stout Devil Copy Share Image
Controlling others—winning—is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else. — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life. — Martha Stout Conscience Copy Share Image
Sociopaths are just like everybody else in that some of them are really brilliant, some of them are really stupid, and most… — Martha Stout Brilliant Copy Share Image
Sociopaths are not afraid of very much, except for physical harm and dying - really primitive, basic kinds of fears. The problem… — Martha Stout Boredom Copy Share Image
The ultimate manipulation is to kill someone, and sociopathy is murderous in a psychological sense - there's a kind of soul-murder going… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the… — Martha Stout Brain Copy Share Image
Even famous people - are most concerned of all with what people who are close to them think. And the sociopath is… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
“Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back.” — Martha Stout Conscience Copy Share Image
I am not allowed by my profession to diagnose somebody from a distance, but one can observe certain symptoms of sociopathy in… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
I think con man is the usual term. When somebody comes on television to tell a lot of needy people that God… — Martha Stout Gods will Copy Share Image
Sociopaths are often extremely charming. They are people who are better than you and me at charming people, at being charismatic. I've… — Martha Stout Charismatic 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 Care Copy Share Image
When you were a child, where boredom could actually get to be painful. Sociopaths experience that kind of pain in boredom. And… — Martha Stout Boredom Copy Share Image
Someone, or some group in George W. Bush administration, took 300 million people to war against their will, based on a very… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
The bottom line for most people who are normal is their need for other people. Even the greedy ones have this need… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
People ask, "What could possibly cause a normal person to torture her own child?" Well, the answer is: Nothing could cause a… — Martha Stout Care Copy Share Image
If you see somebody really pulling for your sympathy while at the same time hurting you intermittently, you should start to wonder.… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
“-If I somehow possessed a set of videotapes that contained all the most significant events of your childhood, in their entirety, would… — Martha Stout Childhood trauma Copy Share Image
“Imagine that you are in your house—no—you are locked in your house, cannot get out. It is the dead of winter. The… — Martha Stout Electric light Copy Share Image
“Maybe you cannot be the CEO of a multinational corporation, but you can frighten a few people, or cause them to scurry… — Martha Stout Crocodile Tears Copy Share Image
“Or no—let us say you are not quite such a person. You are ambitious, yes, and in the name of success you… — Martha Stout Desire for power 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 Acting Copy Share Image
Being sociopath is not what most people would consider to be winning. Most of us have some kind of positive goal in… — Martha Stout Children Copy Share Image
“As a counterpoint to sociopathy, the condition of narcissism is particularly interesting and instructive. Narcissism is, in a metaphorical sense, one half… — Martha Stout Desperate love 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 Conscience Copy Share Image
Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly… — Martha Stout Caring Copy Share Image
Most of who we are is our deepest emotions, and someone who cannot feel those emotions in a positive way is never… — Martha Stout Emotion 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 Ability Copy Share Image
“when confronted with a destructive outcome that is clearly their doing, they will say, plain and simple, “I never did that,” and… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
“...after twenty-five years of treating trauma survivors, I have learned that getting hit is actually one of the more bearable ways a… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
“If, instead, you find yourself often pitying someone who consistently hurts you or other people, and who actively campaigns for your sympathy,… — Martha Stout Signs Copy Share Image
“Asked about our sense that we are not safe in our own world, Albert Einstein once said, “The world is a dangerous… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
To learn to be charming is fairly easy - you can teach somebody to be charming and to learn human emotions -… — Martha Stout Behavior Copy Share Image
“And so without our primordial attachments to others, what would we be? Evidently, we would be the players of a game, one… — Martha Stout Desire Copy Share Image
