Sissela Bok Quotes
Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.
Bok, Sissela. Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life. Pantheon Books, 1978, p. 18.
Nixon was a very aggressive campaigner, with a great flair for smearing opponents. Kennedy had been an intellectual, Ivy League gentlemen type and his brother, his campaign manager, wanted JFK to get down in the mud with Nixon. He was more assertive than usual and didn’t back down, but he did not go for the low blows that had been readied for him.
Haldeman had actually called the network executives on several occasions regarding Cavett’s show. Nixon was particularly furious when Cavett interviewed John Kerry, the decorated soldier who had thrown his medals away in protest to the handling of the Vietnam War. Nixon wanted some stronger actions taken.
The Congressman was not even chastised by the House of Representatives.
Sissela Bok is a Swedish-born American philosopher and ethicist, the daughter of two Nobel Prize winners: Gunnar Myrdal who won the Economics prize with Friedrich Hayek in 1974, and Alva Myrdal who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982.
