Martha Stout Quotes

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• Controlling others—winning—is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else.
• If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite…
• Sociopaths 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.
• One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.
• The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an…
• We are all a little crazy.
• In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does not go hunting,…
• Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task.
• I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.
• I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.
• We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat...By the time she is thirty, the…
• 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…

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