Intellectual Quotes by Sissela Bok

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

— Sissela Bok

Sitting too long in front of a screen proves both physically and psychologically debilitating, no matter how innocuous or even beneficial the programs may…

— Sissela Bok

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

— Sissela Bok

Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of shorter periods…

— Sissela Bok

Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater…

— Sissela Bok

Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confidentiality protects much that is not in…

— Sissela Bok

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

— Sissela Bok

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

— Sissela Bok

Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching out to…

— Sissela Bok

Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.

— Sissela Bok

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it…

— Sissela Bok

Regardless of how often the appetite for entertainment violence becomes addictive, increased exposure does risk further desensitizing viewers. And the element of pleasure that…

— Sissela Bok