Abuse Quote by Christopher Dodd

Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.

— Ian Hacking

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

— Sissela Bok

Secrecy doesn't attach to particular parties; it attaches to power. All of the bull work is in place for whomever succeeds. That's my concern.

— Ted Gup

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

— Max Brooks

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny

— Robert A. Heinlein

The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret…

— John F. Kennedy

People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.

— William Hazlitt

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

— Bing Gordon

Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

— Ian Hacking