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
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
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
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
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
Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of… — Robert Bridges 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
For me, the constitutive element of an affair is the secrecy. It is the secrecy that leads to the lying, to the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
The second term of the Bush administration and first five years of the Obama presidency have been devoted to codifying and institutionalizing… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
If secrecy is made out of the same stuff that the rest of the world is made out of, then it's fundamentally… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“A soulmate is an intimate and sacred keeper of your secrets, fears, vulnerabilities and love with a bond where trust breathes safety… — Julieanne O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Governments want to control information. To do this, they have elaborate systems for promoting themselves via propaganda departments and for ensuring confidentiality… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. As if it whispered to him of its fifty… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what… — Josh Marshall Copy Share Image
“No, It's not fair. But I was thinking more along the lines of the Pentagon and Washington itself. Sometimes I suspect that… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The awful mysteries of the Christian faith and worship were concealed from the eyes of strangers, and even of catechumens, with an… — Edward Gibbon 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
The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
“I was worried about my own vagina. It needed a context of other vaginas-- a community, a culture of vaginas. There's so… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
If I were to disclose all their rituals, I think that it would be easy to prove that witches are not diabolists;… — Gerald Gardner Copy Share Image
Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Is love just a butterfly? Love can tell us so many things about the deep waters of our inner self and the… — Erik Pevernagie 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
They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they get out to the floor. And… — John William McCormack Copy Share Image
If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
There was reason for STILLMAN'S EXTREME SECRECY. HE WAS PREPARING TO EXTEND THE CITY BANK'S POWER OVER THE EARTH AND FULLY RECOGNIZED… — George B. Cortelyou 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
Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
