"If courage is acting according to one's conscience……" — Martha Stout
"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 the demands of authorities to do otherwise."
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Martha Stout
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12 Quotes by Martha Stout
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Controlling others—winning—is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else.
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Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left…
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One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.
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The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our…
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We are all a little crazy.
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In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things…
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Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as…
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I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.
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I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.
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We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat...By the…
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A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by…
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