Secrecy Quotes

“No secrecy, no business.”

— Toba Beta

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

— Jeremy Taylor

Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.

— Ramsey Clark

“secrecy is a hotbed of vanity”

— Joseph Brodsky

Secrecy begets tyranny.

— Robert A. Heinlein

What thou seest, speak of with caution.

— Solon

That queen of secrecy, the violet.

— John Keats

“Warren life doesn't make for secrecy.”

— Richard Adams

In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.

— Robert K. Massie

The secret known to two is no longer a secret.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

“There is a meaning of life but I've been sworn to secrecy.”

— Brian Spellman

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

— Sophocles

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

— Max Brooks

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

— Georg Simmel

Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.

— Julian Assange

“There always comes the day when children swallow the key to the door of secrecy. They’ll not return it.”

— Milan Rúfus

Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.

— Jill Lepore

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

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care…

— Daniel Schorr

A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.

— Lord Chesterfield

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

“The causes of familial discord and distance are countless, but the results are often the same: secrecy, blame, sadness, hurt, confusion, and…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Where secrecy is known to exist one can never be absolutely sure that he knows the complete truth." Edward U. Condon”

— Anonymous

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

Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy.…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is…

— Anton Chekhov

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the…

— Sissela Bok

Abuse of any kind thrives off secrecy. I felt like if I started talking about it, maybe other people would. I wanted…

— Chris Witty

Abuse exists because of secrecy. If I can use this platform and talk about it and break the silence, somebody can get…

— Chris Witty

The first people that have the information are the hair and makeup ladies and the wardrobe people, because they often have to…

— Gretchen Mol

Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,…

— Richard Armour

“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons…

— Suzy Kassem

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

The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their…

— Carl Sagan

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

We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its…

— Joseph Pulitzer

There is more interest in what is occurring in technology companies that impact news. Such companies don't have the same sense of…

— Tom Rosenstiel