The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.
Papa: We inhabit a world of intersecting secrecies, living and dying at the places where these secrecies meet. This is what we accept. Hmmm?
Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence communities tend to value secrecy for its own sake. It's a way of silencing c...
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 n...
The lesson is letting go, giving up and giving thanks for what is. Life unfolds in mysterious and beautiful ways; I have very little say in this process.
Secrecy is the language of time.
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.
Secrecy is the foundation of politics.
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
If secrecy is the beginning of tyranny, declassification is its apotheosis.
I will say that again in a different way: the persistent unethical and ignorant emphasis on secrecy and on making decisions for partisan advantage or to pay off campaign contributors and select insiders is not sustainable. We the People have an oppor...
Depression thrives in secrecy but shrinks in empathy.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
