The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“If you think love means secrecy, then you don’t understand what love is at all.” — Anne Blankman Copy Share Image
Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.' — Cara Buono Copy Share Image
Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and… — Andrew Scott Copy Share Image
He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
There is a very intense culture of secrecy in Britain that hasn't yet been dismantled. What passes for transparency here would serve… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
“We all know Damian's big on secrecy. The man makes the CIA look like a gabfest. He is Mr Need-To-Know. As in,… — Tera Lynn Childs Copy Share Image
In 'The Transparent Society,' I am actually no radical. I accept that some secrecy is necessary and avow that human beings have… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the underlying mistake that makes every innovation go wrong in Michael Crichton novels and films! If AI happens in the… — David Brin Copy Share Image
One of the things I think is really problematic about something like [government] spyware is that it isn't transparent - because of… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
[T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Secrecy fuels erotic intensity because it makes you feel like you're doing something that is entirely yours. It gives you the sense… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“Honesty is overrated. As someone once said, 'Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the heart.'" "It was the Duc de… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image