Fire Quote by Sissela Bok Download Open image “Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.” — Sissela Bok ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fire Human beings Humans Indispensable Secrecy
Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only… — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Secrecy is like oxygen to politicians and defense forces; there’s always got to be some of it to keep them going.” — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Secrecy has this disadvantage: we lose the sense of proportion; we cannot tell whether our secret is important or not.” — E.M. Forster 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… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
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
Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I locked the door and turned on the water to fill the tub. I made it so hot that I had to get in… — Susan Crandall Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
“Nothing is ever lost nor can be lost; the body aged, sluggish,cold.... the embers left from earlier fires shall dully flame again” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free. — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
