“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
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot 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
Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared. — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of… — Jean de La Fontaine 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
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
While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret. — Daniel Schorr 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
With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants… — Honore de Balzac 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
All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“A culture of secrecy is like the bad stench created by cat pee—it is very difficult to get rid of.” — Pierre de Vos 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
Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think it's something that the citizenry needs to be vigilant about - participating in democracy, and that includes issues like what's… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
