Conscience Quote by 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

An intelligent sociopath can learn the rules about what's good and what's bad, what people see as good and bad. But they don't get…

— Martha Stout

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 come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

— Walter Kirn

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

“Sociopaths, or what psychiatrists call antisocial personalities, have lifelong patterns of deceitfulness for personal gain. They lack remorse and empathy and are wizards at…

— Gary Small

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

— Henry Fielding

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

I was once doing a book signing and a man came up to me and said that he gave classes to people who'd been…

— Martha Stout

“If, instead, you find yourself often pitying someone who consistently hurts you or other people, and who actively campaigns for your sympathy, the chances…

— Martha Stout

“Many of the characteristics displayed by psychopaths…are closely associated with a profound lack of empathy (an inability to construct a mental and emotional ‘facsimile’…

— David Bagby

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