All time Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a…

— Gregory Bateson

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 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

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

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

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

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be…

— Gilbert Parker

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are,…

— Samuel Johnson

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

— Thomas Carlyle

In the traditional academic literature, secrecy is thought of as a set of bureaucratic operations - hiding files and hiding information, that sort of…

— Trevor Paglen