Art Quote by Sun Tzu

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling…

— Adam Weishaupt

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

— Ian Hacking

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

— Cardinal Richelieu

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

— Ian Hacking

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

Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud,…

— Charles de Gaulle

Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.

— Melina Marchetta

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

— Don DeLillo

To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.

— Ovid

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

— Anonymous

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

— Jill Lepore

Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.

— Christian Nestell Bovee