“If you do not desire control, but instead want to help people, then help those who truly want to be helped. I think you will find this does not include the person who has no conscience.”— Martha Stout, amazon.com
“At some point, most of us need to learn the important, if disappointing, life lesson that, no matter how good our intentions, we cannot control the behavior - let alone the character structures - of other people.”— Martha Stout, amazon.com
“A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind and accepting to the point of not defending herself or other people, that she must not rock the boat…”— Martha Stout, amazon.com
“Psychopaths have little aptitude for experiencing the emotional responses – fear and anxiety – that are the mainsprings of conscience.”— Robert D. Hare, amazon.com