"Liars share with those they deceive the desire……" — Sissela Bok
"Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived."
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12 Quotes by Sissela Bok
Sissela Bok has 12 quotes on this site.
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While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
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Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic…
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Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives…
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Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education;…
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Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.
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We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know…
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To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth,…
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Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we…
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I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic…
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Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.
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Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect…
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More Deceive Quotes
This quote is filed under Deceive Quotes,
one of 366 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
— Bernard Baruch
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In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
— Casey Affleck
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While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
— Sissela Bok
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I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
— Albert Camus
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The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be…
— Thomas Adams
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The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been…
— Abraham Flexner
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your…
— Cesare Pavese
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When settling disputes between his subjects, he should ensure that his judgement is irrevocable; and he should be so regarded…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing…
— Adolf Hitler
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