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Secrecy is an instrument of conspiracy; it ought not, therefore, to be the system of a regular government.
Jeremy Bentham
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 is the first essential in affairs of the State.
Cardinal Richelieu
Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, we discovered, its enabling force. Transparency is the only antidote.
Glenn Greenwald
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
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
For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure the country is guided by some hidden force; an organization working in secrecy, powerful enough to dispose of the Kennedys and of anyone else who gets in its way.
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice, that does not live by secrecy.
Joseph Pulitzer
It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.
Donald Rumsfeld
We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.
Helen Thomas
Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.
Donna Tartt
Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.
Guy Debord
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
A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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.
Brené Brown
Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.
Edward Teller
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
Elia Kazan
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
Carl von Clausewitz
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
Georg Simmel
Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right to literally purchase the copyright of a citizen's potential contribution to society. In a democracy they should not have the legal right to silence the quasi-totality of the functioning élite in order to satisfy a managerial taste for control and secrecy.
John Ralston Saul
Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.
Melina Marchetta
The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early 1840s, after rumors spread that its founder, Joseph Smith, had taken up the practice of polygamy. While denying the charge in public, by 1843 Smith had shared a revelation with his closest disciples.
Scott Anderson
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