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Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
Georg Simmel
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Georg Simmel
German
Sociologist
Born:
Mar 1
,
1858
Died:
Sep 28
,
1918
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,
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,
Finds
,
Tension
,
Involves
,
Revelation
,
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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.
John F. Kennedy
People
Word
Free
Society
Secrecy
Secret
Oaths
Open
Open Society
Opposed
Historically
Very
Repugnant
Inherently
Societies
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Niels Bohr
Best
Democracy
Dictatorship
Secrecy
Weapon
Openness
Should
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.
Diane von Furstenberg
You
Luxury
Secrecy
Lock
Hotel
Hotel Room
Know
Comfort
Get
Door
Room
Fantasy
Reassurance
Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. It's not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive off secrecy. Children should tell someone if they see someone being bullied.
Imelda Staunton
Bullying
Be Brave
Thrive
Secrecy
Okay
Tell
See
About
Someone
Something
Always
Bullied
Bullies
Off
Brave
Being
Children
Happen
Should
Stand
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
Jeremy Bentham
Government
Conspiracy
Ought
Secrecy
System
Never
Instrument
Being
Regular
Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
Edward Teller
Addiction
Secrecy
Once
Accepted
Becomes
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.
Gilbert Parker
Beautiful
Good
Problem
Mind
Guilt
Secrecy
Secrets
Kind
Moral
Joyful
However
End
May
Means
Evasion
Serve
Set
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
Elia Kazan
Will
Whatever
Secrecy
Exact
Mystery
Facts
Hysteria
Exists
Inflamed
Suspicion
Hard
Cool
Many of the benefits from keeping terrorism fear levels high are obvious. Private corporations suck up massive amounts of Homeland Security cash as long as that fear persists, while government officials in the National Security and Surveillance State can claim unlimited powers and operate with unlimited secrecy and no accountability.
Glenn Greenwald
Government
Terrorism
Benefits
Fear
Long
National
Accountability
State
Secrecy
Unlimited
Corporations
Claim
High
Security
Cash
Massive
Powers
Obvious
Operate
Private
Government Officials
Up
Surveillance
Persists
National Security
Officials
While
Suck
Many
Homeland
Homeland Security
Keeping
Amount
Levels
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.
Ron Paul
Government
Privacy
Free
Free Society
National
Society
Secrecy
Total
About
Purpose
Absolutely
ID
Individuals
Protect
Am
Opposed
Contradiction
Card
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