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Secrecy Quotes by Georg Simmel
- Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
- Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
- Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
- Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
More Secrecy Quotes
- Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. — Jeremy Bentham
- The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. — Niels Bohr
- While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive. — Sissela Bok
- 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
- Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. — Thomas Carlyle
- 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
- The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. — Carl von Clausewitz
- I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order. — Sun Tzu
- O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! — Sun Tzu
- That queen of secrecy, the violet. — John Keats
- The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything.… — Lewis Thomas