Boredom Quote by Martha Stout

When you were a child, where boredom could actually get to be painful. Sociopaths experience that kind of pain in boredom. And so to…

— Martha Stout

A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when…

— Walter Kirn

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

I've never been a fan of sociopaths who have no conscience. That scares me because they're capable of anything.

— Laurie Holden

A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate…

— Dan Gilroy

A sociopath is just a label and doesn't encompass the entire being of a person.

— Dan Gilroy

A sociopath can imitate emotions, where a psychopath really doesn't have that capacity. They can't fool people into thinking anything and they're usually lacking…

— Patrick Heusinger

Everyone has friends or people they know, while they aren't definitively sociopaths, they have sociopathic qualities.

— Dylan Sprouse

All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because…

— Dan Gilroy

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

Sociopaths are just like everybody else in that some of them are really brilliant, some of them are really stupid, and most of them…

— Martha Stout

Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

— Peter Beinart