Top 366 Secrecy Quotes & Sayings

there is no pornography without a secrecy.

The meaning of secrecy is very different when the model of love is one of transparency. So to understand the politics of secrecy and revelation, you need to understand the larger culture in which the couple lives and also the culture of the couple itself. What does intimacy mean to them? Where does the couple draw the line between togetherness and separateness? That's what informs you. You always ask, "What would happen if I tell? What would happen if I don't tell?" Sometimes, the partner doesn't want to know.

People equate patents with secrecy, that secrecy is what patents were designed to overcome. That's why the formula for Coca-Cola was never patented. They kept it as a trade secret, and they've outlasted patent laws by 80 years or more.

There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense... I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about Unidentified Flying Objects

Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

For me, the constitutive element of an affair is the secrecy. It is the secrecy that leads to the lying, to the deception, to the duplicity. It is the structure of an affair - not the sexual or emotional behavior or what people actually are doing.

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

Secrecy is never so appealing as in a free society.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

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

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

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

The secrecy of Masonry is an honorable secrecy; any good man may ask for her secrets; those who are worthy will receive them. To give them to those who do not seek, or who are not worthy, would but impoverish the Fraternity and enrich not those who received them.

In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.

Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.

Families that have addicted members learn to operate with secrecy.

If secrecy is made out of the same stuff that the rest of the world is made out of, then it's fundamentally visible, which means that secrecy can only fail in the first instance, in the sense that you cannot make something disappear.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

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

There are some episodes in the history of Israel that are still kept under the strongest secrecy thick veil possible. Some of them are 40 years old, 50 years old, and are still under thick, thick secrecy, and anyone violating this secrecy would be thrown into jail himself.

The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.

That queen of secrecy, the violet.

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.

While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional costs of keeping a secret" until the truth is disclosed. Usually, secrecy involves lying. And lying is always the setting for potential betrayal and violation of trust.

Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.

People sometimes say I broke an oath of secrecy - one of the early charges leveled against me. But it's a fundamental misunderstanding, because there is no oath of secrecy for people who work in the intelligence community. You are asked to sign a civil agreement, called a Standard Form 312, which basically says if you disclose classified information, they can sue you; they can do this, that and the other. And you risk going to jail.

There is more interest in what is occurring in technology companies that impact news. Such companies don't have the same sense of transparency about what they do. They have a tradition of secrecy about products, mores and decision-making that goes along with Silicon Valley and intellectual property and technology. You cannot step onto the grounds of Google without signing a Non-Disclosure Agreement. That industrial secrecy mentality exists along with a theoretical sensibility about transparency on the Web, which is different than transparency inside companies that profit from the Web.

There's no good that can come out of secrecy.

We don't need secrecy.

Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

Being in a Marvel film is the pinnacle of secrecy training.

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.

Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.

Sunlight is better than secrecy when it comes to making laws.

It's important to be transparent, to remove secrecy from issues of equality.

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

Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.

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

Secrecy is for losers.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!

Secrecy destroys accountability.

I am a patriot. I have always sought to serve my country, in theory a Republic. Learning that secrecy was evil rather than good was my first step. From there it was a steady march toward open-source everything. Now I see all the evil that secrecy enables in a corrupt Congress, a corrupt Executive, a corrupt economy, and a corrupt society. I see that the greatest service I or any other person can render to the Republic is to march firmly, non-violently, toward open-source everything.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. Secrecy has always an element of fear in it, amounting very often to hate. Modesty is gentle and reserved. Today, modesty is thrown to the winds, even in the presence of the grey guardians. But secrecy is hugged, being a vice in itself. And the attitude of the grey ones is: Dear young ladies, you may abandon all modesty, so long as you hug your dirty little secret.

Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.

Power expands through the distribution of secrecy.

It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to rely upon the weapon of secrecy. Secret societies, a language kept as far as possible secret, the use of false names in order to hide secret movements, secret relations between various parts of the Jewish body: all these and other forms of secrecy have become the national method.

Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.