Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The… — Chris Terrio Copy Share Image
We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process… — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
“Secrecy has this disadvantage: we lose the sense of proportion; we cannot tell whether our secret is important or not.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their… — Richard M. Nixon 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
“Habits of secrecy, made necessary by the actual relations between states, violate the ‘transcendental formula of public right’, which is that an… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate… — Henry Bessemer 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
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
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
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
“Postmen have a legendary aura. A ring at the doorbell may inflame a sense of expectation, suspense, secrecy, hazard or even intrigue.… — Erik Pevernagie 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 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
If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
I am secretive. Always have been. And one way that secrecy manifested in my early life was that I was adept at… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“Plus she had to admit that a small part of her secrecy was that she was holding something back, for herself. If… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
The United States builds weapons presumably secretly, and then it sells them to other countries. So the whole business of secrecy is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The next four years, though, you still have to abide by the oversight process that is there to prevent this kind of… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“If you are having private thoughts and ask an intimate friend to listen to them in privacy or on a date will… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Americans can tolerate some secrecy, particularly when it is rooted in protection of the public's interests. But when the claims appear to… — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such.… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
All Cabinet Ministers and other senior ministers are still sworn in as Privy Counsellors for life. The oath (which dates back to… — Clive Ponting Copy Share Image
I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The necessity of procuring good Intelligence is apparent & need not be further urged-All that remains for me to add, is, that… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy God. You will be… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed… — John F. Kennedy 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
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
