“They didn't just live with secrets. Secrecy surrounded their entire lives.” — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being. — Georg Simmel 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
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
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
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
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
God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others. — Saadi Copy Share Image
“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
It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy. — Donald Rumsfeld 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
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
The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early… — Scott Anderson 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
There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot… — Bob Schaffer Copy Share Image
“We live in a culture of secrecy, where hiding and lying are accepted as natural, even though we don’t like it. We… — Penney Peirce Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Before even getting to David Cameron's father here's a starting-point question about the Panama Papers: how is the desire to break the… — Michael Wolff 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
The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
For nearly 2,000 years of Christian civilization, taking the life of an unborn child was regarded as a vile and heinous moral… — Ronald Butt Copy Share Image
“The cliché that “everything leaks; it all comes out in the New York Times eventually” is emphatically not true, above all for… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confidentiality protects much that is… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
One of the principal factors fueling the proliferation of the abuse of secrecy and sensitive but unclassifieds is the administration's adherence to… — Ted Gup 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
The first people that have the information are the hair and makeup ladies and the wardrobe people, because they often have to… — Gretchen Mol Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Censorship and thought control can exist only in secrecy and darkness.” — Pat Frank Copy Share Image
Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The painter saw what was, an alternate Candor and secrecy inside the skin. — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three. — James Howell Copy Share Image
