Cannot Quote by Trevor Paglen

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

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

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

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

— Anonymous

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

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

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

— Max Brooks

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 can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only…

— Christopher Dodd

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