Secrecy Quotes
254 quotes by 209 authors
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Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
— Jeremy Bentham
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
— Niels Bohr
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While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
— Sissela Bok
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While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate…
— John O. Brennan
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right…
— John le Carre
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.
— Sun Tzu
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O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!
— Sun Tzu
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
— John Keats
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The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure,…
— Lewis Thomas
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The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in…
— Michael Faraday
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Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
— Don DeLillo
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We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done all over the…
— David Lange
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Where would we in Washington and we in America be without the Center? We would know much less about the workings of our Congress, and…
— Seymour Hersh
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Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
— Harry S. Truman
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It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through…
— Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
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Abstract: Careful review of a vast array of relevant evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that some unidentified flying objects are intelligently controlled vehicles whose…
— Stanton T. Friedman
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