Important Quote by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Secrecy is for losers.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.

— Jill Lepore

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 one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

— Ian Hacking

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

— Max Brooks

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The…

— Oscar Wilde

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

We don't need secrecy.

— Jimmy Wales

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

— Bing Gordon

“Secrecy has this disadvantage: we lose the sense of proportion; we cannot tell whether our secret is important or not.”

— E.M. Forster

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