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Quotes About Secrecy

It doesn't make any sense. If the SIM are policemen, secret or not, shouldn't we trust them instead of being afraid of them?
~ Julia Alvarez
Lifting his head to gently kiss her lips, he whispered, "I trust you." Then he covered his own eyes with her satin mask.
~ Aleatha Romig, Convicted
The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!
~ Tom Waits
Please don't lie to me,unless,you're sure I'll never find out the truth.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth
~ Leo Tolstoy
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
~ Winston Churchill
The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most.
~ Edward Snowden
Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.
~ George Carlin
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
~ Oscar Wilde
At first, I did not tell you any of this because...you were not supposed to mean anything to me. And later..." His voice became rough with emotion. "Later, I did not tell you because you mean so much to me.
~ Shelly Thacker
Talking about the "relationship" too much takes away the element of the "unknown" and thus the mystery.
~ Sherry Argov
Thieves, spies and other wise guys are working everywhere…including in branches of the U.S. government.
~ Sherry Morris
She shoved her hands in the deep silk-lined pockets…where she felt the cold steel of a revolver.
~ Sherry Morris
I am pregnant with song. My body aches but do not betray me. I will sing songs and hide them away. I will tear them into bits and throw them in the street. The streets of my city are full of dark holes. I will hide my songs in the holes of the streets.
~ Sherwood Anderson
If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.
~ Sherwood Anderson
Words were made only for babblers, women, and lawyers. Like Bismarck once said: "Words were given to us to hide our thoughts.
~ Sholem Aleichem
Glancing back over his shoulder seemed to be habit, for Touch had noticed him do it before, as if the man thought someone might be following him. "Stranger, what did you say your name was?" asked the blacksmith. "I didn't," answered the thief. In fact, he had, but he changed his name more often than his stockings, and now he couldn't remember what name he'd bestowed upon himself.
~ Sid Fleischman
A Conspiracy is like an Iceberg........there is a lot more to it than what meets the eye
~ Siddharth Astir
All cities have a certain fascination that is lost with too intimate a knowledge.
~ Sidney Dark
There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask.
~ Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Talking to yourself is the last subterfuge.
~ Silvina Ocampo
Mi pisci imamo neku tajnu koja nas održava u životu i daje nam nadu, mada znamo da to što pišemo nikad ne?emo mo?i da objavimo. Isak Babelj radi na ne?emu tajnom, Miša Bulgakov piše roman o ?avolu u Moskvi. Ali niko ih nikad ne?e ?itati. Niko ni mene ne?e ?itati.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
like Turing and the cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park, the Navajo were ignored for decades. Eventually, in 1968, the Navajo code was declassified, and the following year the code talkers held their first reunion.
~ Simon Singh
The first known European book to describe the use of cryptography was written in the thirteenth century by the English Franciscan monk and polymath Roger Bacon. Epistle on the Secret Works of Art and the Nullity of Magic included seven methods for keeping messages secret, and cautioned: "A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.
~ Simon Singh