“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
The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the… — Jimmy Breslin 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
Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
A government by secrecy benefits no one. It injures the people it seeks to serve; it damages its own integrity and operation.… — Russell B. Long 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
There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home,… — George McGovern 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
When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets. — Saadi Copy Share Image
Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being… — Brené Brown 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
Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise. — George Crabbe 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
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
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
“What if, I never tire of asking, we said 'Secret Council' instead of the archaic and therefore cuddly 'Privy Council'?” — Christopher Hitchens 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
Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
