“You can never let your compassion stand in the way of justice because when you do, other people get hurt.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy. — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own… — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it. — Saadi Copy Share Image
Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Eating disorders are shrouded in secrecy, and there are so many things I felt very ashamed of that I could never talk… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance,… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, secrecy involves creating spaces that are outside of the law but are outside the normal channels of oversight. And I think… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
There are some episodes in the history of Israel that are still kept under the strongest secrecy thick veil possible. Some of… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
The government's instinct is to shroud itself in secrecy - to act like the office of a president instead of as a… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. It's not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive… — Imelda Staunton Copy Share Image
If secrecy is made out of the same stuff that the rest of the world is made out of, then it's fundamentally… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
The bicycles go by in twos and threes - There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn to-night, And there's the half-talk code… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
An attitudinal sea change. I think that's the hardest one to fix. Presidential directives, bills, provisions can all be rescinded, repealed, amended,… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I guess I was a little bit nervous, because there seemed to be so much secrecy with Ben [Stiller] wanting to make… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets: for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want… — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
“Be open in everything with your partner, because where there is secrecy, it can mistakenly come off as being sneaky; where you… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Secrecy breeds distrust. You don't just expect to be trusted, you earn someone's trust by being open and honest. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself. — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya) — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to… — Horace Copy Share Image
We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I went for an audition, which was shrouded in all kinds of secrecy to keep the storyline under wraps, and 5 days… — Lauren Cohan Copy Share Image
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