Quotes by Sissela Bok

Sissela Bok

America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an ‘epidemic of children killing children,’ which is ravaging some of its communities today.

America

Children

Epidemics

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 as moments, days, or years? And to what extent are virtue and happiness linked?

Happiness

Thinking

Years

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 mistakenly confused with privacy; yet it can concern many matters in no way private, but that someone wishes to keep from the knowledge of third parties.

Confused

Lying

Party

Deceit and violence – these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

Deceit

Deception

Two

Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching out to help them can be stunted or undermined early on, depending on a child’s experiences in the home and neighborhood. It becomes too easy to turn our backs on fellow human beings… to have ‘compassion fatigue.’ Technology, we are learning, is not neutral.

Children

Communication

Home

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.

Believe

Government

Running

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

Deception

Liars

Lying

Much as being active in the antislavery movement of the last century involved more than not engaging in slavery oneself, so joining in an antiviolence movement has to go beyond opting for nonviolence in one’s personal life. It calls for engaging in imaginative and forceful practices of nonviolent resistance to violence, including taking a stand toward entertainment violence.

Joining In

Movement

Practice

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 than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

Happiness

Misery

Ongoing

Regardless of how often the appetite for entertainment violence becomes addictive, increased exposure does risk further desensitizing viewers. And the element of pleasure that they derive may lead them to regard violence as a more acceptable way of dealing with problems, and victimization as more tolerable so long as it befalls others, not themselves.

Doe

Long

Risk

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Air

America

Atmosphere

Believe

Breathing Space

Childhood

Children

Communication

Community

Confused

Deceit

Deceiving

Deception

Doe

Epidemics

Essentials

Fire

Foundation

Giving

Government

Growth

Happiness

Home

Hype

Indispensable

Integrity

Joining In

Liars

Long

Lying

Matter

May

Misery

Movement

Ongoing

Opportunity

Party

Practice

Principles

Realizing

Resources

Risk

Running

Secrecy

Self

Sitting

Soul

Thinking

Thrive

Truth

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Quotes by Sissela Bok

Sissela Bok

America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an ‘epidemic of children killing children,’ which is ravaging some of its communities today.

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 as moments, days, or years? And to what extent are virtue and happiness linked?

Deceit and violence – these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

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.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

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 than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

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