What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine! — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret. — George Colman the Elder Copy Share Image
Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
“Mimi didn't care about secrecy. She led a proclaimed life, and once she got talking she held back nothing.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you… — Richard Wexler Copy Share Image
“Freedom from the cloak of secrecy is integral to a teaching that gives primacy to direct experience, inviting each individual to test… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“I can open any door, anywhere with a few tiny lines of computer code. No such thing as a private bank account… — andrew scott Copy Share Image
A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The secrecy surrounding wealth and the anxiety of talking about money is absurd. If you are rich and you live well and… — Jamie Johnson Copy Share Image
The Air Force had put out a secret order for its pilots to capture UFOs. For the last six months we have… — Donald Keyhoe Copy Share Image
The film's title star, Christian Bale, told me in June that he'd signed a multi-picture contract. When I caught up with Batman… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
“But the importance of privacy is evident in the fact that even those who devalue it, who have declared it dead or… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening… — Harlan Cleveland Copy Share Image
I think it became blurry because I grew up in a very private family. I mixed privacy and secrecy up somewhere along… — Kristen Johnston Copy Share Image
The Obama administration already claims the power to wage endless and boundless war, in virtually total secrecy, and without a single meaningful… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Abstract: Careful review of a vast array of relevant evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that some unidentified flying objects are intelligently… — Stanton T. Friedman Copy Share Image
Where would we in Washington and we in America be without the Center? We would know much less about the workings of… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
The U.S. Government hasn't maintained secrecy regarding UFOs. It's been leaking out all over the place. But the way it's been handled… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image