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

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

The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life be….

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared..

Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives..

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 and the bur….

Much as being active in the antislavery movement of the last century involved more than not engaging in slavery oneself, so joining in an antiviolenc….

Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity..

Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching out….

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive..

Regardless of how often the appetite for entertainment violence becomes addictive, increased exposure does risk further desensitizing viewers. And th….

Sitting too long in front of a screen proves both physically and psychologically debilitating, no matter how innocuous or even beneficial the program….

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….

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles..

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….

Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily….

Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confidentiality protects m….

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….

To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to ot….

I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if officials ma….

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 ….