Sissela Bok Quotes

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• Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
• While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
• Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion…
• Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of shorter periods such…
• Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as strength,…
• Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.
• We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers…
• To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are…
• Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we drink. When it is damaged,…
• 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…
• Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.
• Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.

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