The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it. — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
“Censorship and thought control can exist only in secrecy and darkness.” — Pat Frank Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise. — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Government that is open and honest will always be able to withstand the light of day. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government. — John McCain Copy Share Image
From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home,… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young, under terror. No matter how unreasonable the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand the deeper secrets of life.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
“All friends have secrets. We're like three-dimensional shapes on paper; we all have hidden sides. And there's some secrets we don't even… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
The difficulty is the levels of secrecy we had to maintain around the project at all different times. We had to keep… — Amy Ziering Copy Share Image
“The maintenance of secrecy in the matter, the confining all knowledge of it for a time to the place where the homicide… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Secrecy and silence are the perpetrator’s first line of defense. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types… Did we get to where we are today via a… — Edward Snowden 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
“But although she interacted with so many people during the day, no one could actually say that they were close to her.… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Many of the benefits from keeping terrorism fear levels high are obvious. Private corporations suck up massive amounts of Homeland Security cash… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, beyond diplomatic manipulation and economic gain, a system of ubiquitous spying allows the United States to maintain its grip on the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Wikileaks is providing information on what ambassadors are sending to Washington and things like that. Maybe some of that has a right… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The squadron of men-of-war and transports was collected, the commodore’s flag hoisted, and the expedition sailed with most secret orders, which, as… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
One of the principal factors fueling the proliferation of the abuse of secrecy and sensitive but unclassifieds is the administration's adherence to… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confidentiality protects much that is… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
“The cliché that “everything leaks; it all comes out in the New York Times eventually” is emphatically not true, above all for… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
The U.S. Government hasn't maintained secrecy regarding UFOs. It's been leaking out all over the place. But the way it's been handled… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
[T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
![“[T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate the pitiful helplessness of the inarticulate individual, who functions at the polls as the smallest indivisible arithmetical (and not always…” quote by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df8/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn-1946_anonymity_t-he-democratic-principle-of-one-man-one_1179996.jpg)
