“Habits of secrecy, made necessary by the actual relations between states, violate the ‘transcendental formula of public right’, which is that an… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
The next four years, though, you still have to abide by the oversight process that is there to prevent this kind of… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
I am secretive. Always have been. And one way that secrecy manifested in my early life was that I was adept at… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“Plus she had to admit that a small part of her secrecy was that she was holding something back, for herself. If… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I think Mitt Romney has demonstrated repeatedly he has a penchant for - for secrecy, doesn't seem to have any interest in… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The United States builds weapons presumably secretly, and then it sells them to other countries. So the whole business of secrecy is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“If you are having private thoughts and ask an intimate friend to listen to them in privacy or on a date will… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such.… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Americans can tolerate some secrecy, particularly when it is rooted in protection of the public's interests. But when the claims appear to… — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy God. You will be… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
The necessity of procuring good Intelligence is apparent & need not be further urged-All that remains for me to add, is, that… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
All Cabinet Ministers and other senior ministers are still sworn in as Privy Counsellors for life. The oath (which dates back to… — Clive Ponting Copy Share Image
I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Our constitutional system is defined by a balance between the public's need for transparency and the government's need to have a zone… — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
CALVIN: This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ...… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Leaks are good. There is too much secrecy in our government. Sometimes the government knows about a problem and it takes a… — Joan Claybrook Copy Share Image
American intelligence and military agencies have a huge footprint in terms of how the world works, but they're largely invisible. I'm interested… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The lesson for me was clear: national security officials do not like the light. They act abusively and thuggishly only when they… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
