--- title: "1 Kidnapping Quotes By Sissela Bok" description: "1 Kidnapping quotes by Sissela Bok. Plus more from Sissela Bok and more Kidnapping sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d8/sissela-bok-26105_ability_the-television-screen-is-the-lens-throug_1557542.jpg" --- > [The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life becomes suffused by images of shootings, family violence, gang warfare, kidnappings, and everything else that contributes to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sissela-bok/the-television-screen-is-the-lens-through-which-most-children-learn/) [Sissela Bok](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sissela-bok/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d8/sissela-bok-26105_ability_the-television-screen-is-the-lens-throug_1557542.jpg) ## Other authors on Kidnapping - [Steven Magee 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kidnapping/steven-magee/) - [B.J. Daniels 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kidnapping/b-j-daniels/) ## More by Sissela Bok > [Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sissela-bok/secrecy-is-as-indispensable-to-human-beings-as-fire-and-as-greatly/) [Sissela Bok](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sissela-bok/sitting-too-long-in-front-of-a-screen-proves-both-physically-and/) [Sissela Bok](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sissela-bok/some-level-of-truthfulness-has-always-been-seen-as-essential-to-human/) [Sissela Bok](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sissela-bok/are-people-the-best-judges-of-their-own-happiness-or-outsiders-in/) [Sissela Bok](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sissela-bok/psychologists-have-found-that-we-are-more-likely-in-looking-back-at/) [Sissela Bok](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sissela-bok/confidentiality-refers-to-the-boundaries-surrounding-shared-secrets/) [Sissela Bok](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sissela-bok/) > [Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sissela-bok/deceit-and-violence-these-are-the-two-forms-of-deliberate-assault-on/) [Sissela Bok](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sissela-bok/) > [Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sissela-bok/liars-share-with-those-they-deceive-the-desire-not-to-be-deceived/) [Sissela Bok](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sissela-bok/empathy-and-fellow-feeling-form-the-very-basis-of-morality-the/) [Sissela Bok](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sissela-bok/) > [Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sissela-bok/whatever-matters-to-human-beings-trust-is-the-atmosphere-in-which-it/) [Sissela Bok](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sissela-bok/we-are-all-in-a-sense-experts-on-secrecy-from-earliest-childhood-we/) [Sissela Bok](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sissela-bok/regardless-of-how-often-the-appetite-for-entertainment-violence/) [Sissela Bok](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sissela-bok/) > [Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sissela-bok/three-sorts-of-goods-aristotle-specified-contribute-to-happiness/) [Sissela Bok](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sissela-bok/) > [The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life becomes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sissela-bok/the-television-screen-is-the-lens-through-which-most-children-learn/) [Sissela Bok](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sissela-bok/) > [Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sissela-bok/trust-and-integrity-are-precious-resources-easily-squandered-hard-to/) [Sissela Bok](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sissela-bok/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kidnapping/sissela-bok/#itemlist", "name": "1 Kidnapping Quotes By Sissela Bok", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life becomes suffused by images of shootings, family violence, gang warfare, kidnappings, and everything else that contributes to violence in our society. 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