Secrecy Quotes

254 Secrecy quotes by 207 unique authors

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction. — Edward Teller
We don't need secrecy. — Jimmy Wales
Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.' — Cara Buono
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to… — Robert A. Heinlein
CALVIN: This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists why doesn't he… — Bill Watterson
From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of… — Wendell Berry
Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest… — Oscar Wilde
Secrecy begets tyranny. — Robert A. Heinlein
The nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or both. Usually, it's… — Robert Jordan
Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil. — R. D. Laing
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the… — Judith Lewis Herman
She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret. — Oscar Wilde
There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice… — Joseph Pulitzer
Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my… — Anais Nin
The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society. — John F. Kennedy
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love… — Oscar Wilde
there is no pornography without a secrecy. — D. H. Lawrence
Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of… — Edgar Allan Poe
Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame. — Melina Marchetta
True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Well then, "Katsa said. "Of course, we'll operate with the greatest possible secrecy, Bitterblue. And for what it's worth, we'll deny your involvement to our… — Kristin Cashore
I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with… — Albert Camus
While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional costs of keeping… — Bell Hooks

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