Secrecy Quotes

Secrecy Quote of the day

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.

Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

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.

Conceal thy domestic ills.

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.

There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.

You should not honor men more than truth.

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

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.

Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.

Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

What thou seest, speak of with caution.

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

What thou intendest to do, speak not of before thou doest it.

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.

To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

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.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.

In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.

It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.

Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.