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Quotes About Secret society

Five hundred years of conspiracy had left the Prometheus Club unworried about funding.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I'm asked a lot what the best thing about cooking for a living is. And it's this: to be a part of a subculture. To be part of a historical continuum, a secret society with its own language and customs. To enjoy the instant gratification of making something good with one's hands--using all one's senses. It can be, at times, the purest and most unselfish way of giving pleasure (thought oral sex has to be a close second).
~ Anthony Bourdain
I think everybody really responds to the secret society aspect. This idea that you have to remain anonymous, and yet at the same time, you're kind of saving the world.
~ Abby Brammell
A select group of friends and I have formed a secret slut society. We wear trousers, we have fascinating work, and it's possible that the dust bunnies under our beds could be breeding dust bison.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Professional wrestling was almost like a secret society when I started, like a Mafia, and it would destroy the Sheik to see how much that has changed.
~ Rob Van Dam
while we know the operation and the specific function of the totalitarian secret police, we do not know how well or to what an extent the 'secret' of this secret society corresponds to the secret desires and the secret complicities of the masses in our time.
~ Hannah Arendt
They were the Saturday Club, a secret society of which only the four of them were aware and which none other could join.
~ Ben Elton
There is a very intense culture of secrecy in Britain that hasn't yet been dismantled. What passes for transparency here would serve any secret society well.
~ Heather Brooke
I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.
~ Nathan Fillion
A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.
~ Tahir Shah
J'ai lu quelque part que la mort était une société secrète...Ce qui n'est qu'une fin, un pis-aller , et c'est peu dire, pour la plupart des êtres, ne peut-il devenir pour d'autres une vocation? - Quelquefois, et jamais autant que ce soir, je me le suis demandé. Et - comme toutes les vocations - contagieuse.
~ Julien Gracq
John F. Kennedy was assassinated plain and simple because he went against his own Illuminati brethren.
~ Frank White
Bursar? Yes, Archchancellor? You ain't a member of some secret society or somethin', are you? Me? No, Archchancellor. Then it'd be a damn good idea to take your underpants off your head.
~ Terry Pratchett
I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I'm concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I've never been a networker or I've never been very social.
~ Joss Whedon
Aleka is a poet-philosopher. The Attic is a meeting place where he lives and he has a secret society. They come and visit him and read his works. He then dies and they meet irregularly and continue the readings of his works, and from that learn their own, and become filled with this new passion for life. And they express it through music and form a band. We've put it in a fairy-tale setting.
~ Gavin Edwards
I didn't point out that Courtney and I were hardly BFFs. In Mom's world everyone under the age of eighteen was friends with everyone else, like we were all part of some secret society of minors.
~ Gemma Halliday
Zo snel kon het gaan: een paar dagen geleden had ik me nog beklaagd over het geheimzinnige gedoe van de Wachters en nu richtte ik zelf een geheim genootschap op. Het ontbrak er nog maar aan dat ik vroeg of iedereen bij het verlaten van mijn kamer een blinddoek wilde voorbinden.
~ Kerstin Gier
Washington had also asked that the Bible on which he would swear his oath come from the nearby St. John's Masonic Lodge. The choice carried a more private symbolism, for Washington, like many of the Revolutionary leadership, had long been a member of the secret society know as the Freemasons. With little or no attachment to any church, Washington had two intense organizational commitments: Freemasonry and the Society of the Cincinnati.
~ Carol Berkin
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.
~ John Jay Chapman
esiste una società segreta con ramificazioni in tutto il mondo, che complotta per diffondere la voce che esiste un complotto universale.
~ Umberto Eco
The only secret society I know of that spanned Mormons, Catholics, CIA, Jesuits, and Masons was the Order of the Rose.
~ Cathy O'Brien
The princess stared wide-eyed after her silent teacher. She lifted the hem of her robe and followed. Is this your secret geomancer society? No. Could you please not say 'secret geomancer society' out loud?
~ Clay Griffith
The second-wave Klan could return to its roots of terror because it had survived the kind of scrutiny that would have killed off any other secret society in a democracy
~ Timothy Egan
When I told him about Jordan, out flashed pictures of his grandkids. This was how I was introduced to the secret society of grans. We're instant compatriots. If you want to break the ice with someone who's in the society, all you have to do is ask, "So how old is yours?
~ Lesley Stahl