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
Sociopaths are just like everybody else in that some of them are really brilliant, some of them are really stupid, and most… — 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… — 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 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
Another thing that's fun for sociopath is speed, literal speed, going very fast in your car. Not that everybody who goes fast… — 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… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
The perfect victim, from the sociopath's point of view, is the person who is smart enough and capable enough to do him… — 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
“And sociopaths are noted especially for their shallowness of emotion, the hollow and transient nature of any affectionate feelings they may claim… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
Sociopaths are not inhibited by the notion that it's wrong to be addicted, or wrong to buy illegal drugs. Also, drinking or… — Martha Stout 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 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
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 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 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
Sociopaths differ fairly dramatically in how their brains react to emotional words. An emotional word is love, hate, anger, mom, death, anything… — 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
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
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
In Western culture, particularly North America, a lot of rules are descriptors for sociopathy: a general acceptance of lying as long as… — 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
