“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 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
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 Brain Copy Share Image
I am not allowed by my profession to diagnose somebody from a distance, but one can observe certain symptoms of sociopathy in… — Martha Stout Distance 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
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
Even famous people - are most concerned of all with what people who are close to them think. And the sociopath is… — Martha Stout Concerned 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
“Asked about our sense that we are not safe in our own world, Albert Einstein once said, “The world is a dangerous… — Martha Stout Albert einstein 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 Gods will 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 Behavior 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 Conscience Copy Share Image
“Sociopaths have no regard whatsoever for the social contract, but they do know how to use it to their advantage. And all… — Martha Stout Social contract 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 Care 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 Bad thing 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 Acting Copy Share Image
Conscience is a creator of meaning. As a sense of constraint rooted in our emotional ties to one another, it prevents life… — Martha Stout Boring 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 Book 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
Sociopaths are not usually physically violent. A typical sociopath never kills anybody and doesn't look like Charles Manson - they look like… — Martha Stout Dishonesty 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 Brain Copy Share Image
“Or no—let us say you are not quite such a person. You are ambitious, yes, and in the name of success you… — Martha Stout Desire for power 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 a counterpoint to sociopathy, the condition of narcissism is particularly interesting and instructive. Narcissism is, in a metaphorical sense, one half… — Martha Stout Desperate love Copy Share Image
If you don't have a conscience, what is your behavior like? Apparently, if you don't have a conscience, if you don't really… — Martha Stout Behavior Copy Share Image
“Sociopaths cannot love, by definition they do not have higher values, and they almost never feel comfortable in their own skins. They… — Martha Stout Become rich 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
“And people who do hideous things do not look like people who do hideous, things. There is no "face of evil." If… — 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 Accomplished 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 Book 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 Acceptance 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
“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
In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does… — Martha Stout Absence Copy Share Image
