72 Secrecy Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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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. Yoko Ono

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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

Together Communicate Nothing Others Secrecy Lies Like Much Seal

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame. Jane Pauley

Burden Enough Secrecy Shame Without Diagnosis Burdened Being

Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves. Jill Lepore

Privacy Secrecy Everyone Ourselves Know Known Us Keep

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it. Kate Adie

Good Silence Democracy Better Secrecy Never Information Works

As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease. Abraham Verghese

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Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it. Alanis Morissette

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The building I most admire is the Doges Palace in Venice, both by day and by night. Looking at it from the lagoon, it resembles a floating kilim carpet. I love all the bridges which connect houses, people, gardens and palaces. I also love moats to isolate yourself. A ha-ha for secrecy, as in every English country garden. Anouska Hempel

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'Orphan Black' tends to, for their auditions, shroud it in secrecy and change names. Ari Millen

Change Black Secrecy Tends Names Auditions Shroud Orphan

Secrecy is the foundation of politics. Bing Gordon

Politics Secrecy Foundation

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery. Bob Schaffer

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State. Cardinal Richelieu

First State Secrecy Affairs Essential

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state. Cardinal Richelieu

First State Secrecy Affairs Essential

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. Carroll Quigley

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The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization. Chris Terrio

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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. Craig Venter

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