Quotes About Secrecy

Things around here function on lies because if people knew the truth, it wouldn't work.

It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.

I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.

If somebody's hacking you, you don't want them to know that you know. You want to find out what they're doing, how they're doing it, and then you'll let them know you know.

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.

Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

I am a very private person. No one ever knows anything about me as I don't think it is necessary. I tell people as much as I want them to know about me.

Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.

I never talk about my personal life. After these rumours, I definitely do not want to comment on anything.

There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.

If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

The greatest fears that governments have are freedom of speech and exposing the corruptness, the ineptitude, and the double dealing going on that they don't want the public knowing about.

The Great Armada of Spain was probably the worst-kept secret in sixteenth-century Europe. Philip's government was notoriously leaky; indeed some of the king's most secret planning was known in the states of Italy, long skilled at gathering foreign

When a man practices biblical openness with other men, he moves from secrecy to candor, from isolation to connection, and from pretense to authenticity.

I'll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.

Being on the inside could be an addiction

Joining the church felt like joining a secret club; and you learned the rules after you joined. The first rule of the church was: Never question what it is that you have joined.

There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself." —

Those who lead double lives do so because they can only count that far

C.I.A. had "a culture of insularity." The attitude they projected was "Nobody should tell us what to do. We got it. We are special