A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
For men, privacy means not being told stuff that would hurt. For women, secrecy is having stuff go on behind your back. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury,… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of… — Robert Bridges Copy Share Image
For me, the constitutive element of an affair is the secrecy. It is the secrecy that leads to the lying, to the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I think an awful lot of the reasons people put forward for not liking Hillary Clinton play into deep-seated, negative female stereotypes:… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Ang [Lee] gave us a lot of books about cowboys who had been gay or stories about it and all that stuff.… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
“My father was quite conscious of that distinction, too, and because he spoke very freely in private, he used to sometimes say,… — Mary Soames Copy Share Image
I think Mitt Romney has demonstrated repeatedly he has a penchant for - for secrecy, doesn't seem to have any interest in… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons production and testing has involved extensive health and environmental damage … One of the most remarkable features of this damage… — Arjun Makhijani Copy Share Image
“Secrecy has this disadvantage: we lose the sense of proportion; we cannot tell whether our secret is important or not.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process… — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The… — Chris Terrio 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
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“She had learned over time that to know anything was bearable. It was secrecy that could not be borne.” — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
Secrecy doesn't attach to particular parties; it attaches to power. All of the bull work is in place for whomever succeeds. That's… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
“Secrecy is like oxygen to politicians and defense forces; there’s always got to be some of it to keep them going.” — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“You know how I love secrecy. It is the only thing that can make modern life wonderful or mysterious to us. The… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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