People ask me many times, "Aren't you afraid you're going to scare people? Aren't you afraid you're going to make people feel bad about the human race?" I look at it as entirely the opposite. Something you can understand and identify should be less frightening than something you can't. And to understand that there are people who are capable of acting without conscience, without considering other people at all, explains a lot of things.
Martha StoutEven famous people - are most concerned of all with what people who are close to them think. And the sociopath is generally not concerned with that at all.
Martha StoutSociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.
Martha StoutPeople ask, "What could possibly cause a normal person to torture her own child?" Well, the answer is: Nothing could cause a normal person to torture their own child. The reason that we see that happening is that there are people who don't care, who don't love - even their own children.
Martha Stout