41
" Their analysis revealed that a number of psychopathic attributes were actually more common in business leaders than in so-called disturbed criminals--attributes such as superficial charm, egocentricity, persuasiveness, lack of empathy, independence, and focus--and the main difference between the groups was in the more "antisocial" aspects of the syndrome: the criminals' lawbreaking, physical aggression, and impulsivity dials were cranked up higher. "
― Kevin Dutton , The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
46
" Some 300 years earlier, in Leviathan, Hobbes had anticipated precisely such a notion16 with his concept of ‘force and fraud’: the idea that violence and cunning constitute the primary, indeed the sole, instigators of outcomes. And that the only analgesic for ‘continual fear, and the danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short’ is to be found in the sanctuary of agreement. The formation of alliances with others. "
― Kevin Dutton , The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
48
" So the psychopaths, it transpires, have got it only half right after all. There’s no denying the harshness of existence, the brutal, sawn-off truth that it can, at times, be survival of the fittest out there. But this is not to say that it has to be that way. The meek, it turns out, really do inherit the earth. It’s just that along the way there are inevitably going to be casualties. ‘Do unto others’ has always been sound advice. But now, some 2,000 years later, thanks to Robert Axelrod and Anatol Rapoport, we’ve finally got the maths to prove it. "
― Kevin Dutton , The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
59
" Bu beceri setine Yedi Ölümcül Anahtar adını veriyorum - sağduyuyla ve dikkatle uygulandığında istediklerimize ulaşmamızda bize yardım edecek, modern yaşamın sorunlarına tepki vermektense yanıt vermemizi sağlayacak, bizi kötü biri haline getirmeden görünüşümüzü dize gelenden dize getirene dönüştürecek olan psikopatlığın yedi çekirdek ilkesi: Acımasızlık, Cazibe, Odaklanma, Zihinsel Sağlamlık, Korkusuzluk, Farkındalık, Eylem. "
― Kevin Dutton , The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
