Quotes About Secrecy

pero ese tema era tabú en aquellos tiempos de hipocresía colectiva.

Se preguntó de nuevo, como tantas veces antes, cuántos hombres andarían por el mundo turbados por el recuerdo de ella, amándola en secreto, cuántos andarían sedientos de su cariño o anhelando ser redimidos de culpas y dolores por sus hechizos de bruja buena.

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

Our constitutional system is defined by a balance between the public's need for transparency and the government's need to have a zone of secrecy around decision making. Both are important, yet they are mutually exclusive.

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

Conscience is a treacherous thing, and mine behaves badly whenever there is a serious danger of being found out.

If you would know and not be known, live in a city.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

The rich know not who is his friend.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

I wish everybody would go back into the closet.

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke.

Truthfully, I mostly can be as private as I want.

What people think in their heart gets out, no matter how much they try to hide it.

I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and the little living room in our little apartment there, and I'd skin my deer, and all the guts would go in the tub, and I'd sneak them out so my fellow students on both sides wouldn't see all that, you know. I'd clean fish up there and all.

I'm fairly in tune with what's private with my husband and with me.

In these old houses, I mean, we're here in the 17th century part of the palace and I can really belt out a tune if I want, nobody's going to hear me at all.

I used to sneak gospel tunes into my old records, just as kind of a personal thing.

I only like people to know what I want them to know. People didn't know what Tupac was doing. That's why he was so iconic.

What I learned is that there are indeed some stories that are too true to tell, too revealing for the general population to metabolize. And too challenging to your reporter colleagues, whose turf or toes you might have tread upon.

In many places around the world, including Turkey until the 1950s, Muslims didn't have full freedom of religion. Even personal practice was not allowed, and they had to practice in secret.