Secrecy Quotes

254 Secrecy quotes by 207 unique authors

I went for an audition, which was shrouded in all kinds of secrecy to keep the storyline under wraps, and 5 days later I was… — Lauren Cohan
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every… — Salman Rushdie
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs. — Abraham Maslow
What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't travel around, like… — Gilles Deleuze
Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and… — John le Carre
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from… — Alfred Kinsey
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself. — M. Night Shyamalan
Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote. — Glenn Greenwald
Secrecy destroys accountability. — Ralph Nader
The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations -… — Carl Sagan
The year that Rutherford died (1938 [sic]) there disappeared forever the happy days of free scientific work which gave us such delight in our youth.… — Pyotr Kapitsa
Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types… Did we get to where we are today via a slippery slope that… — Edward Snowden
There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal,… — Glenn Greenwald
Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy — Donna Tartt
In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with… — Bell Hooks
There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker… — Gregory Bateson
Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the… — Guy Debord
Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount… — BrenÃ© Brown
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state. — Cardinal Richelieu
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. — Samuel Johnson
Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or… — William H. Gass
If I were to disclose all their rituals, I think that it would be easy to prove that witches are not diabolists; but the oaths… — Gerald Gardner
I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself. — Daniel Schorr
Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure. — Robert J. Sawyer

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