Quotes About Secrecy

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.

When it comes to hiding porn, every man is a CIA agent.

The veil concealing truth gets windswept in the wee hours, revealing all to the silence of the night.

In his first note on the case, Dulles had written: "I had met Olson on several occasions. He was the last person I expected to commit suicide. This was the makings of a serious problem.

Jade sat inconspicuously at a table largely blocked from view by the brewing vat. He, however, had excellent visibility of the entire seating area, and he could also lean slightly and look straight down the length of the bar.

refused." "Two of us were assigned to kill you that summer. It was the first

He always told his girl, "If only these walls could talk... the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone's a liar." But the walls didn't talk.

All that is very relevant to Afghanistan. To a startling degree, the Politburo's 1979 deliberations about how to deal with it mirror the Bush administration's close-minded and secretive decision-making that led to its invasion. The Bush White House might have modeled itself on the Soviet gerontocracy under Brezhnev that brushed aside warnings from military and regional experts who knew the situation in Afghanistan to be far more complicated than the Politburo stated.

Berkeley was a lookout and a hideout.

Da, s? se machieze. Dar nu pentru a se face frumoas?, ci pentru a se ascunde.

Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.

dijo otro- , nos traes a conocer a una dama, y apenas si con mucha dificultad se ven los dedos de la mano.

The society whose modernisation has reached the stage of integrated spectacle is characterised by the combined effect of five principal factors: incessant technological renewal, integration of state and economy, generalised secrecy, unanswerable lies, and eternal present . . . — The Society of the Spectacle

He was a mystery. Intimacy is a mystery; maybe that's what he wanted.

José Antonio Zorrilla, director de la Federal de Seguridad, manda matar a Manuel Buendía, de quien se reputa amigo, para evitar que Buendía publique qué comandantes de la Federal de Seguridad protegen a los narcos.

en ese espacio de las negociaciones confidenciales inconfesables, que son el corazón de la lealtad política.

We are criminals and we do not know how to express or prove that we are criminals. The problem is that if, as criminals, we were recognized as such, we would have to pay for the crime. Yet if we paid, the crime would disappear and our debt would be wiped out. We must keep our crime in order to keep our crime safe, to avoid the terrible fate of being forgiven.

In a religious community, the village atheist keeps his doubts to himself.

At the Long Island plant, no one was concerned about espionage—neither

Let some things remain mysterious.

the less you know the less lies you will tell

My friend, it is not an arduous task that I bequeath, for our order knows only silken bonds. To be gentle and patient, to care for the riches of the mind, to preside in wisdom and secrecy while the storm rages without — it will all be very pleasantly simple for you, and you will doubtless find great happiness.

You can keep as quiet as you like, but who are you hiding from if it isn't yourself?

Could it be that he, Stephen Dedalus, had done those things? His conscience sighed in answer. Yes, he had done them, secretly, filthily, time after time, and, hardened in sinful impenitence, he had dared to wear the mask of holinesss before the tabernacle itself while his soul within was a living mass of corruption.