Top 25 Martha Stout Quotes (2024 Update)

Martha Stout Quote: “I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic’s. His hair was perfect.”

1. “I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic’s. His hair was perfect.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “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 appeal to our sympathy.”

2. “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 appeal to our sympathy.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “Imagine – if you can – not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern for the well-being of strangers, friends, or even family members.”

3. “Imagine – if you can – not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern for the well-being of strangers, friends, or even family members.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “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, and, when the other men are out of the village, takes sexual advantage of many women.” The Inuits tacitly assume that kunlangeta is irremediable. And so, according to Murphy, the traditional Inuit approach to such a man was to insist he go hunting, and then, in the absence of witnesses, push him off the edge of the ice.”

4. “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, and, when the other men are out of the village, takes sexual advantage of many women.” The Inuits tacitly assume that kunlangeta is irremediable. And so, according to Murphy, the traditional Inuit approach to such a man was to insist he go hunting, and then, in the absence of witnesses, push him off the edge of the ice.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task.”

5. “Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act and without limitations of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority.”

6. “A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act and without limitations of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi.”

7. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “Conscience is the still small voice that has been trying since the infancy of our species to tell us that we are evolutionarily, emotionally, and spiritually One, and that if we seek peace and happiness, we must behave that way.”

8. “Conscience is the still small voice that has been trying since the infancy of our species to tell us that we are evolutionarily, emotionally, and spiritually One, and that if we seek peace and happiness, we must behave that way.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “We are all a little crazy.”

10. “We are all a little crazy.”

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Martha Stout Quote: “One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.”

11. “One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.”

12. “I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “It’s so hard, because so much of the time when I’m here, what you’re seeing is not what I’m seeing. I feel like such an imposter. I’m out in my ocean, and you don’t know that. And I can’t tell you what’s going on. Sometimes I’d really like to tell you, but I can’t. I’m gone.”

14. “It’s so hard, because so much of the time when I’m here, what you’re seeing is not what I’m seeing. I feel like such an imposter. I’m out in my ocean, and you don’t know that. And I can’t tell you what’s going on. Sometimes I’d really like to tell you, but I can’t. I’m gone.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “Sociopaths have no regard whatsoever for the social contract, but they do know how to use it to their advantage. And all in all, I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.”

15. “Sociopaths have no regard whatsoever for the social contract, but they do know how to use it to their advantage. And all in all, I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “What we conceive of as an unbroken thread of consciousness is instead quite often a train of discontinuous fragments. Our awareness is divided. And much more commonly than we know, even our personalities are fragmented – disorganized team efforts trying to cope with the past – rather than the sane, unified wholes we anticipate in ourselves and in other people.”

16. “What we conceive of as an unbroken thread of consciousness is instead quite often a train of discontinuous fragments. Our awareness is divided. And much more commonly than we know, even our personalities are fragmented – disorganized team efforts trying to cope with the past – rather than the sane, unified wholes we anticipate in ourselves and in other people.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “It may be that we are puppets – puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. – Stanley Milgram.”

17. “It may be that we are puppets – puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. – Stanley Milgram.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “I don’t change. It’s not that I change. Reality changes. Everything becomes very small, and I exist entirely inside my mind. Even my own body isn’t real.” Indicating.”

18. “I don’t change. It’s not that I change. Reality changes. Everything becomes very small, and I exist entirely inside my mind. Even my own body isn’t real.” Indicating.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain. – Doug Horton.”

19. “Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain. – Doug Horton.”

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Martha Stout Quote: “The person who suffers from a severe trauma disorder must decide between surviving in a barely sublethal misery of numbness and frustration, and taking a chance that may well bring her a better life, but that feels like stupidly issuing an open invitation to the unspeakable horror that waits to consume her alive. And in the manner of the true hero, she must choose to take the risk. For.”

20. “The person who suffers from a severe trauma disorder must decide between surviving in a barely sublethal misery of numbness and frustration, and taking a chance that may well bring her a better life, but that feels like stupidly issuing an open invitation to the unspeakable horror that waits to consume her alive. And in the manner of the true hero, she must choose to take the risk. For.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “I believe that most of us cannot know what we would do, trapped in a situation that required such a seemingly no-win decision. But I do know that anyone wanting to recover from psychological trauma must face just this kind of dilemma, made yet more harrowing because her circumstance is not anything so rescuable as being locked in a house, but rather involves a solitary, unlockable confinement inside the limits of her own mind.”

21. “I believe that most of us cannot know what we would do, trapped in a situation that required such a seemingly no-win decision. But I do know that anyone wanting to recover from psychological trauma must face just this kind of dilemma, made yet more harrowing because her circumstance is not anything so rescuable as being locked in a house, but rather involves a solitary, unlockable confinement inside the limits of her own mind.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “If all you had ever felt toward another person were the cold wish to “win,” how would you understand the meaning of love, of friendship, of caring? You would not understand. You would simply go on dominating, and denying, and feeling superior. Perhaps you would experience a little emptiness sometimes, a remote sense of dissatisfaction, but that is all.”

22. “If all you had ever felt toward another person were the cold wish to “win,” how would you understand the meaning of love, of friendship, of caring? You would not understand. You would simply go on dominating, and denying, and feeling superior. Perhaps you would experience a little emptiness sometimes, a remote sense of dissatisfaction, but that is all.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “Grossman comes to a “novel and reassuring conclusion about the nature of man: despite an unbroken tradition of violence and war, man is not by nature a killer.”

23. “Grossman comes to a “novel and reassuring conclusion about the nature of man: despite an unbroken tradition of violence and war, man is not by nature a killer.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “Sociopathy stands alone as a “disease” that causes no dis-ease for the person who has it, no subjective discomfort. Sociopaths are often quite satisfied with themselves and with their lives, and perhaps for this very reason there is no effective “treatment.”

24. “Sociopathy stands alone as a “disease” that causes no dis-ease for the person who has it, no subjective discomfort. Sociopaths are often quite satisfied with themselves and with their lives, and perhaps for this very reason there is no effective “treatment.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “The politician, small or lofty, who menaces the people with frequent reminders of the possibility of crime, violence, or terrorism, and who then uses their magnified fear to gain allegiance, is more likely to be a successful con artist than a legitimate leader.”

25. “The politician, small or lofty, who menaces the people with frequent reminders of the possibility of crime, violence, or terrorism, and who then uses their magnified fear to gain allegiance, is more likely to be a successful con artist than a legitimate leader.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.” – JAMES THURBER.”

26. “You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.” – JAMES THURBER.”

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Martha Stout Quote: “The best way to deal with a sociopath is to avoid him or her, to refuse any kind of contact or communication. The only completely effective way to protect yourself is to disallow him or her from your life altogether. Sociopaths live wholly outside of the social contract, and, violent or not, they are always destructive.”

27. “The best way to deal with a sociopath is to avoid him or her, to refuse any kind of contact or communication. The only completely effective way to protect yourself is to disallow him or her from your life altogether. Sociopaths live wholly outside of the social contract, and, violent or not, they are always destructive.”

— Martha Stout

Martha Stout Quote: “Understanding sociopathy can teach us that, at those times when we focus only on ourselves and our group and ignore our intrinsic ties to others – when we turn a blind eye to the importance of everyone’s well-being – even those of us who do have conscience begin to lose our way, and the shadow of evil looms closer. Goodness lies in sensing our bonds with others; evil happens when, for whatever reasons, those feelings are numbed.”

28. “Understanding sociopathy can teach us that, at those times when we focus only on ourselves and our group and ignore our intrinsic ties to others – when we turn a blind eye to the importance of everyone’s well-being – even those of us who do have conscience begin to lose our way, and the shadow of evil looms closer. Goodness lies in sensing our bonds with others; evil happens when, for whatever reasons, those feelings are numbed.”

— Martha Stout

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