Secrecy Quote by Georg Simmel Download Open image “Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.” — Georg Simmel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Secrecy Speak Transition
Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“Secrecy is like oxygen to politicians and defense forces; there’s always got to be some of it to keep them going.” — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, secrecy involves creating spaces that are outside of the law but are outside the normal channels of oversight. And I think it's pretty… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space. — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious. — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor. — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it. — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
Gratitude, as it were, is the moral memory of mankind. In this respect, it differs from faithfulness by being more practical and impulsive: although… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
A stranger is far enough away that he is unknown but close enough that it is possible to get to know him. In a… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release. — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
“You can never let your compassion stand in the way of justice because when you do, other people get hurt.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared. — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy, but to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I think Mitt Romney has demonstrated repeatedly he has a penchant for - for secrecy, doesn't seem to have any interest in actually showing… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret. — Daniel Schorr Copy Share Image
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… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
