Secrecy Quotes

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

We don't need secrecy.

Leaks are good. There is too much secrecy in our government. Sometimes the government knows about a problem and it takes a leak to embarrass the bureaucracy and get them to do something about it.

Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.

We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process of government appointments.

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

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.

From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues.

One of the things I think is really problematic about something like [government] spyware is that it isn't transparent - because of that anonymity and that secrecy, there aren't laws to regulate it.

Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.

Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.

I have replaced my instinct for secrecy with an instinct for confession.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you to see how poor a job they are doing.

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 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.

Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy.

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.

The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

Darkness always tries to hide the truth!

Don't mention your move before you make a move.

Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of meAnd it starts from the heart 'til it reaches my outer me

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.

Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand the deeper secrets of life.

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.

The causes of familial discord and distance are countless, but the results are often the same: secrecy, blame, sadness, hurt, confusion, and feelings of loss and grief.

No secrecy, no business.

It’s not the public opinion of what you are that matters, but the private personality of who you are!

Bees will not work except in darkness

Whatever it is that you think you have discovered. You must forget it.

Privacy seems not an illusion for those who want to believe in secrecy principle.

I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me.

What if, I never tire of asking, we said 'Secret Council' instead of the archaic and therefore cuddly 'Privy Council'?

There are springs in the mind from which others cannot drink.

Is love just a butterfly? Love can tell us so many things about the deep waters of our inner self and the secrecy in the hidden brushwood of our emotions. ("Alpha and Omega")

You can never let your compassion stand in the way of justice because when you do, other people get hurt.

As long as they don't know, I am safe

When you are entrusted with a secret, you become irrevocably accountable for what you do or don't do after your mind is colored by the knowledge of it.

Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.

Secrets, ” Kohler finally said, “are a luxury we can no longer afford.

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.

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.

A man can hide all things excepting twain - That he is drunk and that he is in love.

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God.

Nothing is secret which shall not be made manifest.

If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself.