Top 366 Secrecy Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.
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.
in rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.
Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.
You can't just draw a veil of secrecy when you are locking people up. You have to do at least the minimum, which is to acknowledge who you are holding.
A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy.
All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.
Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.
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.
Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.
The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.
Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.
The Oscar is the fantasy that you're afraid to believe in, but in the secrecy of your dark room, you dream and wait for it.
Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.
Secrecy can be sexy. It's essential to any good mystery novel.
Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
In nature's infinite book of secrecy
A little I can read.
The Church ever operates in full light. There is no secrecy about its doctrine, aim, or work.
The Palio is shrouded in mystery and secrecy, and the players can't discuss their devious schemes.
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
I went for an audition, which was shrouded in all kinds of secrecy to keep the storyline under wraps, and 5 days later I was in Atlanta and 700 years older.
Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.
Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.
Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.
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.
Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.
All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.
The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society.
Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.
The painter saw what was, an alternate
Candor and secrecy inside the skin.
For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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.
The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.
We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.
Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
Although the organizing logic of our nation's surveillance apparatus is invisibility and secrecy, its operations occupy the physical world.
The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.
A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the arts of silence.
How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!
The secrecy that shrouded the vote counting by the special election committee cast doubts on the results and lacks transparency.
