I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect. — Martha Stout Drinking Copy Share Image
One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life. — Martha Stout Conscience 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 Brilliant 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 George w Copy Share Image
“Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back.” — Martha Stout Conscience Copy Share Image
If you see somebody really pulling for your sympathy while at the same time hurting you intermittently, you should start to wonder.… — Martha Stout Hurt Copy Share Image
Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly… — Martha Stout Caring Copy Share Image
If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and… — Martha Stout Ability 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… — Martha Stout Emotion 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… — Martha Stout Destructive Copy Share Image
Conscience is the still small voice that has been trying since the infancy of our species to tell us that we are… — Martha Stout Behave 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 Boredom 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 Able Copy Share Image
People ask, "What could possibly cause a normal person to torture her own child?" Well, the answer is: Nothing could cause a… — Martha Stout Care Copy Share Image
“And so without our primordial attachments to others, what would we be? Evidently, we would be the players of a game, one… — Martha Stout Desire 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 Be kind Copy Share Image
Some parts of the population are starting to realize that character is extremely important and that it cannot be measured by the… — Martha Stout Character 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… — Martha Stout Conscience Copy Share Image
“Maybe you cannot be the CEO of a multinational corporation, but you can frighten a few people, or cause them to scurry… — Martha Stout Crocodile Tears Copy Share Image
“-If I somehow possessed a set of videotapes that contained all the most significant events of your childhood, in their entirety, would… — Martha Stout Childhood trauma 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 Children Copy Share Image
“The panicked feeling of a guilty conscience never squeezes at your heart or wakes you in the middle of the night. Despite… — Martha Stout Conscience 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 Empathy Copy Share Image
“After listening for almost twenty-five years to the stories my patients tell me about sociopaths who have invaded and injured their lives,… — Martha Stout Body language Copy Share Image
“But after all the years, her husband and children have come to accept that, once every few weeks, their usually warmhearted and… — Martha Stout Children Copy Share Image
“...after twenty-five years of treating trauma survivors, I have learned that getting hit is actually one of the more bearable ways a… — Martha Stout Assaulted 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 Appeals 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 Conscience Copy Share Image
“If all you had ever felt toward another person were the cold wish to “win,” how would you understand the meaning of… — Martha Stout Feeling Copy Share Image
When I speak of divisions greater than gender or race, I say that because it is so unimaginable. I can imagine what… — Martha Stout Conscience Copy Share Image
If you have reached the point where you're certain that person has no conscience, or is in it to win rather than… — Martha Stout Conscience Copy Share Image
“Rather, the best clue is, of all things, the pity play. The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people… — Martha Stout Habits 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 Boredom 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… — Martha Stout Action 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 Capable Copy Share Image
I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him. — Martha Stout Devil Copy Share Image
Controlling others—winning—is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else. — Martha Stout Compelling Copy Share Image
The ultimate manipulation is to kill someone, and sociopathy is murderous in a psychological sense - there's a kind of soul-murder going… — Martha Stout Kind Copy Share Image
