"Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience,……" — Martha Stout
"Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task."
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Martha Stout
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12 Quotes by Martha Stout
Martha Stout has 12 quotes on this site.
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Controlling others—winning—is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else.
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If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience…
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Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left…
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One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.
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The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our…
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We are all a little crazy.
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In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things…
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I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.
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I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.
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We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat...By the…
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A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by…
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'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year…
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A chance is what you take before you think about it. A calculated risk is what you take after you…
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Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us…
— Hernando Cortes
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Some people like to live without too much risk. They're satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates…
— Tom Platz
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Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.
— Mark McCormack
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The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in…
— Benjamin Rush
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A champion plays the game; a spectator observes, criticizes and never really gets to live. A champion knows what he…
— Bruce Jenner
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Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child.
— Wes Fesler
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Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance.…
— Mary McGrory
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In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed…
— Joseph Dalton Hooker
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[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers…
— W. W. Rouse Ball
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Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment.
— Samuel Richardson
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