Sociopaths are not usually physically violent. A typical sociopath never kills anybody and doesn't look like Charles Manson … - Martha Stout

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all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

Martha Stout

Sociopaths are not usually physically violent. A typical sociopath never kills anybody and doesn't look like Charles Manson - they look like you and me and everybody else. You're not looking for someone who's recognizably evil or scary-looking, but rather someone who looks normal. Another lynchpin is dishonesty. Lying for the sake of lying. Lying just to see whether you can trick people. And sometimes telling larger lies to get larger effects.

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If you don't have a conscience, what is your behavior like? Apparently, if you don't have a conscience, if you don't really. . . love, then the only thing that's left for you is the game - it's about controlling things.

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Some parts of the population are starting to realize that character is extremely important and that it cannot be measured by the things we like to measure it by: the tabloids and so forth. Character is crucially important to a leader, to be a moral leader, and we'd better make it primary on our list or we're going to keep getting more of the same.

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Someone, or some group in George W. Bush administration, took 300 million people to war against their will, based on a very giant lie. Combined with the notion of winning, that is, to me, a horrendously scary situation.

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