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

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Source : Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.55, Vintage

Sissela Bok

#Truth Quotes #Levels Quotes #Matter Quotes

“And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So Iâ€™m not narrating a particular story. Iâ€™m just addressing experiences.”
“When you look at how men and women are living together, there are two processes at work. One, women are rising in the middle class; their earning potential is rising compared to men. It has been underway for 100 years, and nothing is going to stop it. On the other hand, women are denied iconic positions of power - equity partnerships law firms, Hollywood salaries.”
“Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.”
“My devotion to my job started from a personal defeat: my first girlfriend's parents rejected me because i wasn't rich. I decided i would show them what a big mistake they had made.”
“It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.”

Source : "Invasion of the $10 Wardrobe" by Jessica Pressler, www.gq.com. December 13, 2011.
“Modern presidential debating only started with Richard Nixon and John F.Kennedy in 1960, although the proximity of that to the Lincoln-Douglas centennial is more than accidental. The reason is, I think, the medium. Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas were talking, but the talking was in terms of logic, development, and reasoning. Television, as a medium, resists those qualities in speaking - it favors quick cuts, one-liners, and talking points. I think the modern debates are largely the prisoners of the televised medium”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Your Majesty, I am like you. I do no work. I do nothing, but I am indispensable.”
“I feel that anything is possible in a poem.”

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