Controlling others—winning—is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else. — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life. — Martha Stout Conscience 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
I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect. — Martha Stout Drinking 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
“...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 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 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
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
I am not allowed by my profession to diagnose somebody from a distance, but one can observe certain symptoms of sociopathy in… — Martha Stout 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
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 Conscience 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“If all you had ever felt toward another person were the cold wish to “win,” how would you understand the meaning of… — Martha Stout 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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 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
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 Brain 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 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
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
“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 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
“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
“Sociopaths have no regard whatsoever for the social contract, but they do know how to use it to their advantage. And all… — Martha Stout Psychopath 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
