Quotes About Secrecy

I'd sneak out of the house to meet girls at 3:30 a.m.

Being invisible would be pretty great. You could watch everybody, sneak into places and know what people were saying.

Growing up, I would take out books from the school library and hide them in the hamper. I'd wait until my parents fell asleep, and then I'd sneak into the bathroom, turn on the light, and dig out the books and read all night.

I'd listen to the radio, especially when my parents were out on house calls to pray for people - you know, shut-ins. Sometimes, if we were incredibly sneaky, we could do it at night when everyone was asleep.

As much as people were asking me and everybody else on the show constantly if Jon Snow is alive or dead, I think, really, in their heart of hearts, they didn't actually want to know. For us, it felt very important to maintain that secrecy for the fans, and we worked very hard to make sure that worked out.

My job is to be skeptical: skeptical of people like Edward Snowden and skeptical of the U.S. government.

Look at Snowden or Julian Assange. In their own way, they are free without restrictions. They are dropped in a place because of political reasons.

The NSA is already bugging everything that everybody does. Each time there's a new revelation from Snowden, you realise the extent of it.

In the end, we will never, ever be able to guarantee that there will not be an Edward Snowden or another Chelsea Manning because this is a large enterprise composed of human beings with all their idiosyncrasies.

Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.

We should stop thinking of Snowden, to the extent that we ever were, as a hero. We should stop thinking of him as a whistleblower.

The other danger of the Snowden disclosures, of course, is that they reveal methods that should make any sensible person more careful about what he or she says on a cellphone or landline, or in an email.

There are so many people involved in making an album, and naturally, all you want to do is show it to your friends and family. You just can't do any of that because all it takes is one morsel of information on the Internet. Within seconds, it's around the whole world.

I married Stephen Gately off to so many people because Stephen didn't want anyone to know he was gay at the start. He was dreading all of his life that this was going to ruin his career.

It's just more mushroom farming, ain't it – keep us in the dark and feed us shit…

One may cover over secret actions, but to be silent on what all the world knows, and things which have had effects which are public and of so much consequence is an inexcusable defect.

power is tolerable only on condition that it masks a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to an ability to hide its own mechanisms.

I'm well aware that I shouldn't be telling you these things; rather, I want to tell you these things, but I'm not certain they're worth publishing. I'm a bit terrified at the idea that one day they'll be discovered.

Charlotte said, "Don't worry. The minutes are strictly confidential." Guilt pang. Afterward, Charlotte walked outside with me. "Of course the minutes can be subpoenaed in court," she said. "Funny," I said. "Jack said that, too.

Michelle had great admiration for criminals and crime, though only from a distance.

Remove the document—and you remove the man.

I believe!' Margarita whispered solemnly. 'I believe! Something will happen! It cannot not happen, because for what, indeed, has lifelong torment been sent to me? I admit that I lied and deceived and lived a secret life, hidden from people, but all the same the punishment for it cannot be so cruel…Something is bound to happen, because it cannot be that anything will go on for ever…

To be invisible is to be free.

A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.