Secrecy Quotes

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly.

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.

We don't need secrecy.

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

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

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws.

They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they get out to the floor. And it's hard to lick em at that stage. They're a closed corporation. When they stick together, you can't lick em on the floor.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.

The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.