Quotes About Confidentiality

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

One result was the publication of the names of confidential informants, including political dissidents, who had spoken with American diplomats in Iran, China, Afghanistan, the Arab world, and elsewhere.6 As a consequence, some of these individuals had to be relocated to protect their lives. More importantly, the revelations made it more difficult for American diplomats to acquire human intelligence in the future, since the confidentiality of conversations could not be relied upon.

From the start, Churchill and Fisher resolved to keep the operation so secret that only they and a few other Admiralty officials would ever know it existed.

Never, never tell them. Try and remember that. Never tell anyone anything ever. Never tell anyone anything again.

You know I'm no squealer, Harry.' 'You're a rummy. But no matter how rum dumb you get, if you ever talk about that, I promise you.' 'I'm a good man,' he said. 'You oughtn't to talk to me like that.' 'They can't make it fast enough to keep you a good man,' I told him. But I didn't worry about him any more because who was going to believe him?

You'll lose it if you talk about it.

I would always rather not know. Then, no matter what can happen, it was not me that talked.

One of the powerful attributes of secrecy is its function as a portal for autonomy and control.

Not everything needs to be revealed. Everyone should cultivate a secret garden.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.

If you're a public figure, and if you're working in the White House, you should expect everything you're saying in any context to be leaked.

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

It's very important to respect the conversation between a priest and the members of their flock.

I'll never put my memoirs in print.

Privacy is paradise.

I don't appreciate people invading my privacy.

Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can.

You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.

I don't like showing my privacy online.

Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.