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Sissela Bok

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Sissela Bok

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Swedish-American philosopher

Person · Open Library

Works
23

Top works

  • School for scandal
  • Eutanasia y el Auxilio Medico al Suicidio
  • Complex humanitarian emergencies
  • Dialogues on Happiness
  • Thinking Like an Engineer

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Quotes

  • Evil means, he insisted, corrupt and degrade not only the purposes for which they are undertaken but also the persons who stoop to such means. Overcoming the urge to resort to such means is hardest when one aims to rectify past injustices. It is because ‘hate the sin and not the sinner’ is a precept so rarely practiced that the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
  • Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.
  • When we undertake to deceive others intentionally, we communicate messages meant to mislead them, meant to make them believe what we ourselves do not believe. We can do so through gesture, through disguise, by means of action or inaction, even through silence.
  • Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.
  • The role that one assigns to truthfulness will always remain central in considering what kind of person one wants to be—how one wishes to treat, not only other people, but oneself.
  • Any awareness of how lies spread must generate a real sensitivity to the fact that most lies believed to be white are unnecessary if not downright undesirable.

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