I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society… if officials make public only what they want citizens to know, then publicity becomes a sham and accountability meaningless. — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared. — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confidentiality protects much that is not in fact secret, personal secrets lie at its core. The innermost, the vulnerable, often the shameful: these aspects of self-disclosure help explain why one name for professional confidentiality has been "the professional secret." Such secrecy is sometimes… — Sissela Bok Copy Share
Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings. — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives. — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
