Secrecy quotes
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The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate secrecy.
-- Achim Steiner -
We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.
-- Andrew Scott -
Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.
-- Andrew Young -
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The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.
-- Ben Macintyre -
Be thine own privy counsellor.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
-- Bill Vaughan -
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Secrecy is the foundation of politics.
-- Bing Gordon -
in rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.
-- Catherine Marshall -
It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.
-- Donald Rumsfeld -
Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
-- Edward Teller -
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There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
-- Georg Simmel -
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
-- Georg Simmel -
The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.
-- George P. Shultz -
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Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.
-- Harrison Salisbury -
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.
-- Harry Houdini -
Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
-- Harry S. Truman -
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.
-- Henry Bessemer -
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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.
-- Jamie Fellner -
In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn -
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
-- Jeremy Taylor -
We don't need secrecy.
-- Jimmy Wales -
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He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.
-- John Dryden -
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.
-- John le Carre -
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.
-- Mary Alice Monroe -
How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!
-- Matthew Arnold -
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Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.
-- Max Brooks -
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.
-- Norm MacDonald -
I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
-- Oscar Wilde -
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
-- Oscar Wilde -
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What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!
-- Philip Sidney -
What thou intendest to do, speak not of before thou doest it.
-- Pittacus of Mytilene -
Secrecy destroys accountability.
-- Ralph Nader -
Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.
-- Ramsey Clark -
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Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.
-- Ric Ocasek -
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
Secrecy begets tyranny.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.
-- Robert J. Sawyer -
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In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.
-- Robert K. Massie -
Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.
-- Sissela Bok -
What thou seest, speak of with caution.
-- Solon -
Conceal thy domestic ills.
-- Thales -
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The painter saw what was, an alternate Candor and secrecy inside the skin.
-- Thom Gunn -
There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.
-- Victor Hugo -
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.
-- William Stanley Jevons -
The Palio is shrouded in mystery and secrecy, and the players can't discuss their devious schemes.
-- Cosima Spender -
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The secret known to two is no longer a secret.
-- Ninon de L'Enclos -
There's no good that can come out of secrecy.
-- John Dean
