Secrecy Quotes

254 Secrecy quotes by 207 unique authors

When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy.… — Diane von Furstenberg
Truth never damages a cause that is just. — Mahatma Gandhi
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world.… — Umberto Eco
But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial… — Harry Houdini
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. — Elia Kazan
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies,… — John F. Kennedy
From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America. — George McGovern
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy. — Ian Mcewan
Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by… — Kevin Mitnick
Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my… — Alanis Morissette
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of. — Bill Moyers
I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or… — Nathan Myhrvold
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it. — Ric Ocasek
When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain… — Joyce Carol Oates
Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy… — Yoko Ono
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set… — Gilbert Parker
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of… — Ron Paul
A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame. — Jane Pauley
Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy. — Laura Schlessinger
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it. — Georg Simmel
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession. — Georg Simmel
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release. — Georg Simmel
If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on… — Peter Singer
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. — Jeremy Taylor

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