The secrecy surrounding wealth and the anxiety of talking about money is absurd. If you are rich and you live well and… — Jamie Johnson 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
A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“I can open any door, anywhere with a few tiny lines of computer code. No such thing as a private bank account… — andrew scott Copy Share Image
The third factor is the natural predisposition of bureaucracies, both governmental and private, to exploit secrecy to whatever degree they are licensed… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy… — Fritz Sauckel Copy Share Image
The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The U.S. Government hasn't maintained secrecy regarding UFOs. It's been leaking out all over the place. But the way it's been handled… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, beyond diplomatic manipulation and economic gain, a system of ubiquitous spying allows the United States to maintain its grip on the… — Glenn Greenwald 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
“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
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
“Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise. — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it. — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash… — Kevin Mitnick 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
From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake. — William Hazlitt 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
When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The secrecy of Masonry is an honorable secrecy; any good man may ask for her secrets; those who are worthy will receive… — William Howard Taft 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
The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is… — Anton Chekhov 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
“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
