Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of… — Clifford Allbutt 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
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy… — Jill Lepore 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
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
I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret. — George Colman the Elder 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
I think an awful lot of the reasons people put forward for not liking Hillary Clinton play into deep-seated, negative female stereotypes:… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine! — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you… — Richard Wexler Copy Share Image
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they… — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see… — Karen Allen 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
The Oscar is the fantasy that you're afraid to believe in, but in the secrecy of your dark room, you dream and… — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
I went for an audition, which was shrouded in all kinds of secrecy to keep the storyline under wraps, and 5 days… — Lauren Cohan Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
