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Martha Stout Quotes about Winning

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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 except the will to win.

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
Kindness, Winning, Brain

Being sociopath is not what most people would consider to be winning. Most of us have some kind of positive goal in mind when we think of winning. A sociopath thinks in terms of successfully manipulating someone into doing something that he or she would not have done otherwise. That can be a small thing or a tremendous thing, but the point for the sociopath is to win, to make sure that this person does what they're trying to coerce him or her into doing. It can be as disgusting and as simple as making a child cry. Or it can be as complex as making your wife feel bad about herself.

Martha Stout
Children, Thinking, Winning
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

If you have reached the point where you're certain that person has no conscience, or is in it to win rather than to love you, then the very best thing you can do is to get away. That's a very hard lesson to learn, and, furthermore, it's not always possible.

Martha Stout
Love You, Winning, Get Away
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Most of us fill up our lives and end our boredom with our involvement with other people - people we love, people we hate, people we're afraid of, people we're interested in - and that's what keeps our minds going. So if you're sociopathic and you really have no caring for anybody, there's not much left, only boredom, and the way to relieve that, apparently, is to play a game and make sure that you win.

Martha Stout
Hate, Caring, Winning
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Controlling others—winning—is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else.

Martha Stout
Winning, Compelling
Martha Stout, Ph.D. (2005). “The Sociopath Next Door”, p.47, Harmony

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.

Martha Stout
War, Lying, Winning
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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