We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release. — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret. — Daniel Schorr Copy Share Image
She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude! — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“An execution carried out in secrecy is no better than lynching from a dry branch.” — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
“I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young, under terror. No matter how unreasonable the… — Charles Dickens 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
Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government. — John McCain 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
“The causes of familial discord and distance are countless, but the results are often the same: secrecy, blame, sadness, hurt, confusion, and… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care… — Daniel Schorr Copy Share Image
There's always been something illicit about the way I work. I'm photographing people I don't know, when nobody else is home -… — Katy Grannan Copy Share Image
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the… — Sissela Bok 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
Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to… — Marc Rich 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
My activities, for which I gratefully accept this Award, are today what they have been for over thirty-five years and will be… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
In our system, grand juries take every charge, every lie, and they try to sort the truth from the lies, and then… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
It is certainly of great importance for a general to keep his plans secret; and Frederick the Great was right when he… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
“As opposition leader, [Stephen Harper] wrote in the Montreal Gazette in the year before he came to power: 'Information is the lifeblood… — Lawrence Martin 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
A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. — Benjamin Franklin 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
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