“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
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
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
Conscience is the still small voice that has been trying since the infancy of our species to tell us that we are… — 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 Care 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
“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
“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
“-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
“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
“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
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 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
“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
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 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
