Conscience is a creator of meaning. As a sense of constraint rooted in our emotional ties to one another, it prevents life from devolving into nothing but a long and essentially boring game of attempted dominance over our fellow human… — 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 will to win. — 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
