Distance Quote by Martha Stout

“The high incidence of sociopathy in human society has a profound effect on the rest of us who must live on this planet, too,…

— Andrzej Lobaczewski

The central trait of sociopathy is a complete lack of conscience, which is very difficult for most people to get their heads around, because…

— Martha Stout

There's a certain type of sociopathy to many schemers.

— Mitchell Zuckoff

Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task.

— Martha Stout

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

— Marisha Pessl

In Western culture, particularly North America, a lot of rules are descriptors for sociopathy: a general acceptance of lying as long as you win,…

— Martha Stout

The ultimate manipulation is to kill someone, and sociopathy is murderous in a psychological sense - there's a kind of soul-murder going on.

— Martha Stout

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“while psychopathy is said to be caused primarily by genetic factors, sociopathy is said to be the result of psycho-social and environmental ones.”

— T. Rivers, Clarence

“Whether you know it or not, each and every day your life is touched by the effects of psychopathy on our world.”

— Andrzej Lobaczewski

“Dr. Robert Hare, one of the foremost researchers on sociopathy, believes that a sociopath is four times more likely to be at the top…

— M.E. Thomas

The physical basis for sociopathy is approximately 50 percent inheritable, which sounds more dramatic than it probably is, because most personality characteristics that psychologists…

— Martha Stout