Quotes About Secrecy

I want to keep my private life private.

I am a working woman with a secret life: I keep house.

I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone

Greenwald told the Associated Press that the documents that Snowden had taken from the NSA constituted "the instruction manual for how the NSA is built" and that they "would allow somebody who read them to know exactly how the NSA does what it does, which would in turn allow them to evade that surveillance or replicate it.

Every man is a moon and has a [dark] side which he turns toward nobody; you have to slip around behind if you want to see it. -Mark Twain From introduction to The Amateur.

There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

the nature of the game as it is played is such that the public should realize that the truth cannot be told by the few who know. Otherwise they could not benefit by their knowledge

Wall Street professionals know that acting on "inside" tips will break a man more quickly than famine, pestilence, crop failures, political readjustments or what might be called normal accidents. There is no asphalt boulevard to success in Wall Street or anywhere else. Why additionally block traffic?

Forget the privacy; we all are the spy and spying on each other in every way on every subject.

Spying on any subject means one does not trust or its intention to cause the damage. It does not build the best relationship.

Sure, our taxes and resources also go, for spying on each other to rape privacy.

Nice to know a few things aren't in the government's files,' he said, opening the front door and stepping out ahead of her. The human courtesy of waiting for the woman to go through a door was all flourish, no sense. If any danger waited on the other side of a door, he'd rather meet it himself, not send her into it.

Frequently, walking down the streets in Paris alone, I've suddenly come upon myself in a store window grinning foolishly away at the thought that no one in the world knew where I was at just that moment.

You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.

Almost every woman I have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness, that there is some deep, crazy part within her, that she must be on guard constantly against 'losing control' — of her temper, of her appetite, of her sexuality, of her feelings, of her ambition, of her secret fantasies, of her mind.

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

As long as one writes only for oneself, writing is a free act by means of which, to use an oxymoron, one secretly opens oneself.

I hated the idea that he knew everything about me while I knew little or nothing of him. I felt like someone who is blind and knows that he is being observed by the very people he would like to spy on in every detail.

All the more reason, then, to wonder why I had confessed what was so much my own to strangers, people very different from me, who would therefore never be able to understand my reasons, and who surely, at that moment, were speaking ill of me. I couldn't bear it, I couldn't forgive myself, I felt I had been flushed out.

No es el barrio el que está enfermo, no es Nápoles, sino el planeta, es el universo, o los universos. La habilidad consiste en ocultar u ocultarse el verdadero estado de las cosas.

Aceptar que ser adultos es dejar de mostrarse, es aprender a ocultarse hasta desaparecer?

Cuántas palabras permanecen sin pronunciar incluso en una pareja que se ama, y qué elevado es el riesgo de que otros la destruyan pronunciándolas.

answered slowly: I don't know, I don't want to know. And then I admitted that there had been a kind of admiration for her body, maybe that, yes, but I ruled out anything ever happening between us. Too much fear, if we had been seen we would have been beaten to death.