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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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 Charismatic 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
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
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 Boredom Copy Share Image
“We feel that if someone is bad, he should be burdened with the knowledge that he is bad. It seems to us… — Martha Stout Evil people Copy Share Image
The physical basis for sociopathy is approximately 50 percent inheritable, which sounds more dramatic than it probably is, because most personality characteristics… — Martha Stout Dramatic Copy Share Image
“Imagine that you are in your house—no—you are locked in your house, cannot get out. It is the dead of winter. The… — Martha Stout Electric light Copy Share Image
“As for the boys..."vulnerable fathers turn to time-honored defensive responses to maintain the function that father knows best' Parents, especially fathers, teach… — Martha Stout Father knows best 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 Signs 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
“To admit that some people literally have no conscience is not technically the same as saying that some human beings are evil,… — Martha Stout Ethics 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 Boredom 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 Boredom Copy Share Image
“When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind and… — Martha Stout Children Copy Share Image
