Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared. — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive. — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
“Wasifu wa viongozi wa Kolonia Santita ni siri kwa sababu siri ni siri ya mafanikio.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“There always comes the day when children swallow the key to the door of secrecy. They’ll not return it.” — Milan Rúfus 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
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
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness. — Edward Teller 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
Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
There are some episodes in the history of Israel that are still kept under the strongest secrecy thick veil possible. Some of… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. It's not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive… — Imelda Staunton 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
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
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
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 two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The year that Rutherford died (1938) there disappeared forever the happy days of free scientific work which gave us such delight in… — Pyotr Kapitsa 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
It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The bicycles go by in twos and threes - There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn to-night, And there's the half-talk code… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Those without the gate frequently question the wisdom and right of the occultist to guard his knowledge by the imposition of oaths… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
“And he judged of others by himself, not believing in what he saw, and always believing that every man had his real,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
“Privacy seems not an illusion for those who want to believe in secrecy principle.” — Toba Beta 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
When somebody like Luka, a franchise player, a future Hall of Famer, gets traded at 25, in secrecy without him knowing, yeah,… — Jerami Grant Copy Share Image
O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets: for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want… — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could… — Philip Massinger 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
