You can't just draw a veil of secrecy when you are locking people up. You have to do at least the minimum,… — Jamie Fellner Copy Share Image
Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even… — Mary Alice Monroe Copy Share Image
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The Palio is shrouded in mystery and secrecy, and the players can't discuss their devious schemes. — Cosima Spender Copy Share Image
“I was worried about my own vagina. It needed a context of other vaginas-- a community, a culture of vaginas. There's so… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
“Is love just a butterfly? Love can tell us so many things about the deep waters of our inner self and the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see… — Karen Allen Copy Share Image
They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they get out to the floor. And… — John William McCormack Copy Share Image
I am a patriot. I have always sought to serve my country, in theory a Republic. Learning that secrecy was evil rather… — Robert David Steele Copy Share Image
It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the… — Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter Copy Share Image
Well then, "Katsa said. "Of course, we'll operate with the greatest possible secrecy, Bitterblue. And for what it's worth, we'll deny your… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“We have seen segments of our Government, in their attitudes and action, adopt tactics unworthy of a democracy, and occasionally reminiscent of… — Church Committee Copy Share Image
Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The Oscar is the fantasy that you're afraid to believe in, but in the secrecy of your dark room, you dream and… — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
“The secrecy of our existence is the key to our survival. The existence of a frail human will never stand upon that.'… — Rita Dinis Copy Share Image
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“A culture of secrecy is like the bad stench created by cat pee—it is very difficult to get rid of.” — Pierre de Vos Copy Share Image
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“There’s a kind of secrecy in the world at this time of night, as if I’m allowed to see mysteries hidden in… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“...and no other attempt made at secrecy than Mrs. Norris's talking of it everywhere as a matter not to be talked of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Keep your relationship private, without keeping your partner a secret. There's a difference between privacy and secrecy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Secrecy is like oxygen to politicians and defense forces; there’s always got to be some of it to keep them going.” — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Secrecy doesn't attach to particular parties; it attaches to power. All of the bull work is in place for whomever succeeds. That's… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
“You know how I love secrecy. It is the only thing that can make modern life wonderful or mysterious to us. The… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
