Quotes About Secrecy

maverick techs who liked earning danger money and had proven they could keep their mouths shut.

Once again, then," she said, "the divide between the ambitions of conspirators and the desire, among those bringing us word of those ambitions, to preserve whatever aspect of the status quo they themselves hold dear.

If there's anything better, God kept it for himself.

My Johnny, see, he was smart, real flash boy. Started out as a stash on Memory Lane, chips in his head and people paid to hide data there.

He did something with his mouth that approximated a grin. "Bein' followed, you." Far off, down in Nighttown, a water vendor cried his trade.

The rain was falling steadily now, but she felt as though she were somehow in collusion with it; it lent the day something conspiratorial

To hire someone willing to undertake an unspecified task, likely involving violence.

They both knew she knew this was bullshit, but she guessed that was the way it went, when somebody you knew killed some people and you didn't want them to get caught for it. They were teaching her the story as it needed to be told, and telling it to her in a way that wouldn't require her to tell anything but the truth about what they'd told her.

Damien maintains, half-seriously, that followers of the footage comprise the first true freemasonry of the new century.

Don't," she said, "fingerprints.

When Lowbeer wished a conversation in public to be private, which she invariably did, London emptied itself around her.

A totalitarian dictatorship, by its very nature, works in great secrecy and knows how to preserve that secrecy from the prying eyes of outsiders.

totalitarian dictatorship, by its very nature, works in great secrecy and knows how to preserve that secrecy from the prying eyes of outsiders.

And even if you're right, the CIA paid millions of dollars to men trying to kill goats by staring at them," I said.

Of course you didn't volunteer the information, or even damn well admit it. But shit, Uther, I came to you and confronted you with what I'd worked out, and you Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Well, you're too professional to give away anything that could come back to bite you, but if you'd wanted to mislead me or leave me thinking I was wrong you could have.

The Canadians had Terrell. He was uninfected, in quarantine, and knew nothing.

And I who months before had run into town screaming my accusation was shy to say it now that I was asked to put it in clear words. I'd grown used to this world in which everyone knew what had happened or what I said had, in which it had gone from being spoken to being unspoken again, a secret everybody knew. Here I was, hesitating to speak it. I took persuading.

The postcode did not look quite regular. Some hush-hush Trystero carrier?

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

But some things can't be told that way, I know that now. They can only be approached stealthily, from behind, like wild birds. And even then they catch your scent and take flight before you throw your net of words over them.

This is why Jesus taught in parables to the masses, and gave the inner or esoteric teachings and practices to his disciples only (Luke 8:10). Jesus also instructed the disciples not to reveal inner or esoteric teachings and practices to the unprepared when he told them not to cast their pearls before swine (Matthew 7:6).

So you didn't tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . ." "Because experience is the only teacher," Hey-Soos says. "Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don't listen to their parents, or people don't leave churches and do what the preacher tells them? There's only one thing that's universal." "What's that?" "The truth.

The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret. Fear means we are willing to give up our rights and liberties for promises of security. The imposition of fear ensures that the corporations that wrecked the country cannot be challenged. Fear keeps us penned in like livestock.

Passwords are like underwear: you don't let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn't share it with strangers.