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

This book would not have been made without the tireless mentoring and rare friendship of Christian Bok, Steven Collis and Nicole Markotic. — Jordan Scott

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year. — Derek Bok

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

If you think the cost of education is high, think about ignorance. — Derek Bok

Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively. — Derek Bok

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

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say. — Derek Bok

Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness. — Derek Bok

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy. — Derek Bok

The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible. — Edward Bok

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

The price of success: hard work, patience, and a few sacrifices. — Edward Bok

I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry. — Derek Bok

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions. — Derek Bok

Find your place and hold it: find your work and do it. And put everything you've got into it. — Edward Bok

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

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior. — Derek Bok

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system. — Derek Bok

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education. — Derek Bok

Make the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it. — Edward Bok

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. — Robert Orben

I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write. — Derek Bok

The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India. — Derek Bok

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot. — Derek Bok

Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged. — Derek Bok

For many years I have been a night watchman of the Milky Way galaxy. — Bart Bok

Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals. — Derek Bok

For the first time in living memory, current generations of young people today are likely to be no better educated than their parents. — Derek Bok

Bok strongly believed that good art should find a place in public buildings where large numbers of persons might find easy access to it. — Edward Bok

I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit. — Derek 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

Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories. — Derek Bok

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

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it. — Derek Bok

Someone like you could be so, how do you say, fortunate, said Bok. — David Baldacci

Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught. — Derek Bok