People ask, "What could possibly cause a normal person to torture her own child?" Well, the answer is: Nothing could cause a normal person to torture their own child. The reason that we see that happening is that there 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 don't get that intervening sense of guilt, that pang of conscience, on account of it. So they tend… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect. — 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 is, perversely,… — Martha Stout 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 so to… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
