Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the one we want to share our secrets with becomes our secret.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“An execution carried out in secrecy is no better than lynching from a dry branch.” — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude! — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release. — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret. — Daniel Schorr Copy Share Image
She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the traditional academic literature, secrecy is thought of as a set of bureaucratic operations - hiding files and hiding information, that… — Trevor Paglen 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
“All friends have secrets. We're like three-dimensional shapes on paper; we all have hidden sides. And there's some secrets we don't even… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care… — Daniel Schorr Copy Share Image
There's always been something illicit about the way I work. I'm photographing people I don't know, when nobody else is home -… — Katy Grannan Copy Share Image
Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types… Did we get to where we are today via a… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“The maintenance of secrecy in the matter, the confining all knowledge of it for a time to the place where the homicide… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Secrecy and silence are the perpetrator’s first line of defense. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The difficulty is the levels of secrecy we had to maintain around the project at all different times. We had to keep… — Amy Ziering Copy Share Image
Abuse of any kind thrives off secrecy. I felt like if I started talking about it, maybe other people would. I wanted… — Chris Witty Copy Share Image
Abuse exists because of secrecy. If I can use this platform and talk about it and break the silence, somebody can get… — Chris Witty Copy Share Image
There is more interest in what is occurring in technology companies that impact news. Such companies don't have the same sense of… — Tom Rosenstiel Copy Share Image
We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
My activities, for which I gratefully accept this Award, are today what they have been for over thirty-five years and will be… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
In our system, grand juries take every charge, every lie, and they try to sort the truth from the lies, and then… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
“All my life I have been the sort of person in whom people confide. And all my life I have been flattered… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
It is certainly of great importance for a general to keep his plans secret; and Frederick the Great was right when he… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
“As opposition leader, [Stephen Harper] wrote in the Montreal Gazette in the year before he came to power: 'Information is the lifeblood… — Lawrence Martin Copy Share Image
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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