All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Although the organizing logic of our nation's surveillance apparatus is invisibility and secrecy, its operations occupy the physical world. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
“What if, I never tire of asking, we said 'Secret Council' instead of the archaic and therefore cuddly 'Privy Council'?” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it; for,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
There was reason for STILLMAN'S EXTREME SECRECY. HE WAS PREPARING TO EXTEND THE CITY BANK'S POWER OVER THE EARTH AND FULLY RECOGNIZED… — George B. Cortelyou Copy Share Image
True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons production and testing has involved extensive health and environmental damage … One of the most remarkable features of this damage… — Arjun Makhijani Copy Share Image
With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative.We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an… — Donald Keyhoe Copy Share Image
There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I guess I was a little bit nervous, because there seemed to be so much secrecy with Ben [Stiller] wanting to make… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Ang [Lee] gave us a lot of books about cowboys who had been gay or stories about it and all that stuff.… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
“My father was quite conscious of that distinction, too, and because he spoke very freely in private, he used to sometimes say,… — Mary Soames Copy Share Image
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they… — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
Ultrasound is instrumental in the fight against abortion precisely because it allows women to make an informed choice by shedding light in… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society,… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Leaks are not the problem; they are the symptom. They reveal a disconnect between what people want and need to know and… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
The nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of… — Robert Bridges Copy Share Image
For me, the constitutive element of an affair is the secrecy. It is the secrecy that leads to the lying, to the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
If secrecy is made out of the same stuff that the rest of the world is made out of, then it's fundamentally… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I think an awful lot of the reasons people put forward for not liking Hillary Clinton play into deep-seated, negative female stereotypes:… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“A soulmate is an intimate and sacred keeper of your secrets, fears, vulnerabilities and love with a bond where trust breathes safety… — Julieanne O'Connor Copy Share Image
![“I guess I was a little bit nervous, because there seemed to be so much secrecy with Ben [Stiller] wanting to make sure that it was a surprise when we walked out on the [Valentino] runway. I remember showing up at Place Vendôme and doing the fitting and seeing the pajamas that I was going to wear…” quote by Owen Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4c1/owen-wilson-10973_bits_i-guess-i-was-a-little-bit-nervous-becau_1998914.png)
![“Ang [Lee] gave us a lot of books about cowboys who had been gay or stories about it and all that stuff. And I just talked to a lot of my friends - who [was] their first, particularly same-sex, first situation. That was fascinating to me - trying to learn what that was in a certain period of time…” quote by Jake Gyllenhaal](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ac4/jake-gyllenhaal-2014_age_ang-lee-gave-us-a-lot-of-books-about-cow_876477.jpg)
