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> [When you were a child, where boredom could actually get to be painful. Sociopaths experience that kind of pain in boredom. And so to be alone, to have nobody to play the game with, can be painful. It's not exactly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-stout/when-you-were-a-child-where-boredom-could-actually-get-to-be-painful/)

[Martha Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-stout/)

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## More by Martha Stout

> [“A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-stout/a-part-of-a-healthy-conscience-is-being-able-to-confront/)

[Martha Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-stout/)

> [I would hesitate to tell people to stop being kind or sympathetic to sociopath. But just like loyalty, some things that can be taken…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-stout/i-would-hesitate-to-tell-people-to-stop-being-kind-or-sympathetic-to/)

[Martha Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-stout/)

> [“when confronted with a destructive outcome that is clearly their doing, they will say, plain and simple, “I never did that,” and will to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-stout/when-confronted-with-a-destructive-outcome-that-is-clearly-their/)

[Martha Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-stout/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-stout/usually-sociopaths-will-look-down-upon-us-for-that-very-reason-that/)

[Martha Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-stout/)

> [A conscience is, for a while anyway, pretty easy to fake.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-stout/a-conscience-is-for-a-while-anyway-pretty-easy-to-fake/)

[Martha Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-stout/)

> [I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-stout/i-saw-a-werewolf-drinking-a-pina-colada-at-trader-vic-s-his-hair-was/)

[Martha Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-stout/)

> [The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-stout/the-most-reliable-sign-the-most-universal-behavior-of-unscrupulous/)

[Martha Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-stout/)

> [When you were a child, where boredom could actually get to be painful. Sociopaths experience that kind of pain in boredom. And so to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-stout/when-you-were-a-child-where-boredom-could-actually-get-to-be-painful/)

[Martha Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-stout/)

> [One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-stout/one-way-or-another-a-life-without-conscience-is-a-failed-life/)

[Martha Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-stout/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-stout/we-raise-our-children-especially-girls-to-ignore-their-spontaneious/)

[Martha Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-stout/)

> [Most of who we are is our deepest emotions, and someone who cannot feel those emotions in a positive way is never going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-stout/most-of-who-we-are-is-our-deepest-emotions-and-someone-who-cannot/)

[Martha Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-stout/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-stout/unless-under-the-spell-of-a-psychotic-delusion-extreme-rage/)

[Martha Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-stout/)

> [“If all you had ever felt toward another person were the cold wish to “win,” how would you understand the meaning of love, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-stout/if-all-you-had-ever-felt-toward-another-person-were-the-cold-wish-to/)

[Martha Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-stout/)

> [“And so without our primordial attachments to others, what would we be? Evidently, we would be the players of a game, one that resembled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-stout/and-so-without-our-primordial-attachments-to-others-what-would-we-be/)

[Martha Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-stout/)

> [When I speak of divisions greater than gender or race, I say that because it is so unimaginable. I can imagine what it would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-stout/when-i-speak-of-divisions-greater-than-gender-or-race-i-say-that/)

[Martha Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-stout/)

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