Quotes About Secrecy

In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy

They were the Saturday Club, a secret society of which only the four of them were aware and which none other could join.

Hummer with six doors to a side and black-tinted windows for maximum privacy. "What I'm talking a-bout!" cried Sergeant Dime as he pounced on the bar, everyone whooping over all the pimp finery, but after destroying all hopes for a quick recovery Billy subsides into a gnarled, secret funk. "Billy," says

Control is the name of the game and if a Skunk Works really operates right, control is exactly what they won't get.

That primitive Skunk Works operation set the standards for what followed. The project was highly secret, very high priority, and time was of the essence.

I felt afraid. No one would know that, not Mother and not Mike. I'd keep the fear pushed down inside of me, and no one would know it was there. "I'm awfully happy," I wrote. I was. Awfully happy and awfully in love, and tomorrow I was marrying Mike.

Nothing is more prejudicial to war than talk.

Você nunca, nunca deve contar seus crimes aos outros, a não ser que sejam tão grandes a ponto de não poderem ficar escondidos, e nesse caso descreva-os como política ou ação de Estado.

You never, ever, tell others of your crimes, not unless they are so big as to be incapable of concealment, and then you describe them as policy or statecraft.

Abel Becket had never seen as much of his wife's breasts as Mrs. Loring saw fit to present to the world.

Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned him about his early days and he would not answer. 'What is the egg to the eagle?' he asked me…

There is such joy in chaos. Stow all the world's evils behind a door and tell men that they must never, ever, open the door

The truth cannot be hidden.

Only a fool leaves cash where a servant can find it,' he said.

People like mystery. They want nothing explained, because when things are explained then there is no hope left.

Ils ont découvert le principe de la «lettre volée» d'Edgar Allan Poe : le meilleur cachette est celle qui crève les yeux, car on pense toujours à aller chercher plus loin ce qui se trouve tout près.

The word conscience covers as a matter of fact several different feelings; the simplest of these is the fear of being found out. You, reader, have, I am sure, lived a completely blameless life, but if you will ask some one who has at some time acted in a manner for which he would be punished if it became known, you will find that when discovery seemed imminent, the person in question repented of his crime.

All the governments of the world adopt elaborate methods of concealing truths which they consider undesirable, and inflict various forms of penalty upon those who spread knowledge which is thought bad for the population. This applies especially to knowledge of the kind which is considered seditious, and the kind which is considered obscene.

Everybody in the military has a reputation, and usually it doesn't come out to the public.

I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.

It's hardly a news flash that a secret, clandestine intelligence agency might resist giving out information about its operations when not not legally required to do so.

The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

I honestly have really deep reservations about releasing everything you ever did. Every time somebody farted in the studio, now it's out there.

We're like Iraq. We're hiding missiles. We've got two missiles in reserve.