Quotes About Secrecy

She had deemed it unwise to reveal her soul.

In directing the Bureau's attention to individual bank robbers, Hoover turned a blind eye toward organized crime in general and Jewish crime in particular, perhaps because Hoover was an inveterate gambler. Frank Costello gave him tips on horses.

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.

There is no harm in deceiving society as long as she does not find you out, because it is only when she finds you out that you have harmed her; she is not like a friend or God, who are injured by the mere existence of unfaithfulness.

Secrecy has this disadvantage: we lose the sense of proportion; we cannot tell whether our secret is important or not.

Ser homossexual num ambiente britânico formal e legalmente avesso ao que era visto como um desvio da norma levou sem dúvida Forster a dar ao corpo seu devido valor. Não escondeu suas preferências sexuais dos amigos próximos mas nunca as assumiu publicamente; manteve um longo relacionamento com um homem casado embora ele mesmo, Forster... vivesse sozinho — ou com a mãe.

Shrines are fascinating, especially when rarely opened.

Even when we love people, we desire to keep some corner secret from them, however small: it is a human right: it is personality

We have morals and behaviour also, and I don't think this continual secrecy improves them.

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

wish I was Catholic. The spurious thought made her smile. Catholicism did seem to have her problem covered. She could simply walk into a confessional booth, shock a priest sworn to secrecy, do a little penance, and be done with it.

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

The public is practically unaware of the overwhelming responsibility carried by the Vatican and its Jesuits in the start of the two world wars—a situation which may be explained in part by the gigantic finances at the disposition of the Vatican and its Jesuits, giving them power in so many spheres, especially since the last conflict.

Life, after all, was a secret with the self. The more one gave out, the less there remained for the center--that center which she coveted for herself and recognized instantly in others. Fruits had it, the very heart of, say, a cherry, where the true worth and flavor lay. Some of course were flawed or hollow in there. Many, in fact.

Unlike most people, I kept my mouth shut about the man I was living with.

Si sus actos fueran irreprochables, los francmasones no evitarían con tanto cuidado la luz...

Primero temí que fuera muy difícil averiguar algo de estos tipos que andan en los servicios de inteligencia, y toda esa mano.

Es una cuestión de vigas y de columnas. Lo siento. Pero así es como pienso el mundo. Si intento quitar la viga principal se me derrumba el edificio. Y no quiero. Sobre todo porque no quiero lastimar a los que viven en él. A nadie. Este edificio que construí: ¿puede albergar una habitación secreta?

Y si el precio de serlo es que jamás nadie lo sepa, que sea. Que sea ese el precio. Que todo esto permanezca en el más absoluto silencio. Que nadie sepa, nunca, ni ahora mientras caminamos en esta procesión callada, ni dentro de muchos años cuando sea una viejita memoriosa, Manuel, querido mío, lo mucho que te amé.

Martha: ... I cry allllll the time; but deep inside, so no one can see me. I cry all the time. And Georgie cries all the time, too. We both cry all the time, and then what we do, we cry, and we take our tears, and we put 'em in the ice box, in the goddamn ice trays until they're all frozen and then... we put them... in our... drinks.

Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

Who's that behind those Foster Grants?