Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“She had learned over time that to know anything was bearable. It was secrecy that could not be borne.” — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan 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
From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius… — Robert Aris Willmott 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
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Leaks are not the problem; they are the symptom. They reveal a disconnect between what people want and need to know and… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
Ultrasound is instrumental in the fight against abortion precisely because it allows women to make an informed choice by shedding light in… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society,… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons production and testing has involved extensive health and environmental damage … One of the most remarkable features of this damage… — Arjun Makhijani Copy Share Image
True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative.We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an… — Donald Keyhoe Copy Share Image
People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“We have seen segments of our Government, in their attitudes and action, adopt tactics unworthy of a democracy, and occasionally reminiscent of… — Church Committee Copy Share Image
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Although the organizing logic of our nation's surveillance apparatus is invisibility and secrecy, its operations occupy the physical world. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Secrecy doesn't attach to particular parties; it attaches to power. All of the bull work is in place for whomever succeeds. That's… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
“Secrecy is like oxygen to politicians and defense forces; there’s always got to be some of it to keep them going.” — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
“You know how I love secrecy. It is the only thing that can make modern life wonderful or mysterious to us. The… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“...and no other attempt made at secrecy than Mrs. Norris's talking of it everywhere as a matter not to be talked of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“There’s a kind of secrecy in the world at this time of night, as if I’m allowed to see mysteries hidden in… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of… — Jean de La Fontaine 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
Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“A culture of secrecy is like the bad stench created by cat pee—it is very difficult to get rid of.” — Pierre de Vos Copy Share Image
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
