"Trust is a social good to be protected……" — Sissela Bok
"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, the community as a whole suffers; and when it is destroyed, societies falter and collapse"
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12 Quotes by Sissela Bok
Sissela Bok has 12 quotes on this site.
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Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
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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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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 Air Quotes
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the…
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
— Lester Bangs
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
— Stanley Baldwin
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
— Jack Adams
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
— Drew Barrymore
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
— Drew Barrymore
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
— Hilaire Belloc
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