She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Privacy seems not an illusion for those who want to believe in secrecy principle.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive. — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
“Wasifu wa viongozi wa Kolonia Santita ni siri kwa sababu siri ni siri ya mafanikio.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness. — Edward Teller 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
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 always comes the day when children swallow the key to the door of secrecy. They’ll not return it.” — Milan Rúfus 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 has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young, under terror. No matter how unreasonable the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to… — Marc Rich 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
Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy.… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
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
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
“If your parents’ faces never lit up when they looked at you, it’s hard to know what it feels like to be… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“And he judged of others by himself, not believing in what he saw, and always believing that every man had his real,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Postmen have a legendary aura. A ring at the doorbell may inflame a sense of expectation, suspense, secrecy, hazard or even intrigue.… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“The year that Rutherford died (1938) there disappeared forever the happy days of free scientific work which gave us such delight in… — Pyotr Kapitsa Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I was reading things which had not been approved by the Prophet's censors, and the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The second term of the Bush administration and first five years of the Obama presidency have been devoted to codifying and institutionalizing… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared. — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
“Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand the deeper secrets of life.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
