Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to… — Horace Copy Share Image
We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of… — Honore de Balzac 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
Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The lesson for me was clear: national security officials do not like the light. They act abusively and thuggishly only when they… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
American intelligence and military agencies have a huge footprint in terms of how the world works, but they're largely invisible. I'm interested… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In… — Kumi Naidoo 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
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
It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
An attitudinal sea change. I think that's the hardest one to fix. Presidential directives, bills, provisions can all be rescinded, repealed, amended,… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 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
“If your parents’ faces never lit up when they looked at you, it’s hard to know what it feels like to be… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya) — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself. — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Secrecy breeds distrust. You don't just expect to be trusted, you earn someone's trust by being open and honest. — Anonymous 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
Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 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
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
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
Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. — D. H. Lawrence 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
