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

- Sissela Bok

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

- 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…

- Sissela Bok

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

- Sissela Bok

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

- Sissela Bok

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

- Sissela Bok

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…

- Sissela Bok

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…

- Sissela Bok

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

- Sissela Bok