People ask, "What could possibly cause a normal person to torture her own child?" Well, the answer is: Nothing could cause a… — Martha Stout 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
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 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
I would hesitate to tell people to stop being kind or sympathetic to sociopath. But just like loyalty, some things that can… — 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 Copy Share Image
The sociopath wants the person to be easily enough fooled to stick with him. This can be accomplished by looking for someone… — 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
“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
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 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
Being sociopath is not what most people would consider to be winning. Most of us have some kind of positive goal in… — 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
Most of us fill up our lives and end our boredom with our involvement with other people - people we love, people… — Martha Stout 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
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
I was once doing a book signing and a man came up to me and said that he gave classes to people… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
Sociopaths are not usually physically violent. A typical sociopath never kills anybody and doesn't look like Charles Manson - they look like… — 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
