Quotes About Secrecy

the Vatican's cooperation.

observed the pope. "Some remain secret, others are exploited. Whenever we are told of such cases, we intervene immediately. And severely.

state secret matter.

Hiding what really happened in the past is essential for the manipulators if they are to hide what is happening now.

Real power around the world does not reside with governments any longer, but with private interests. Real power is secret power.

And you realized, once inside the Secret Service cordon, that the president of the United States was just a politician, surrounded by courtiers and glad-handers and people seeking favors. He was as prone to making stupid decisions as any other politician, maybe more so. The real secret about the White House was that it was so ordinary—mediocrity on steroids.

On April 23, therefore, he signed a secret decree confirming Göring as his deputy in Berlin, while Hess continued to manage the Party in his absence. On May 2, 1938, Hitler wrote out a private testament and handed it in a sealed envelope to Dr Lammers, head of the Reich Chancellery – a rare documentary glimpse of Hitler as a human being, putting his affairs in order, arranging his own funeral and disposing of his personal effects to his family and private staff. The

The more a cipher deviates from the simple form in which one ciphertext letter invariably replaces the same plaintext letter, the harder it is to break.

Its coding wheels, stepping a space—or two, or three, or four—after every letter or so, did not return to their original positions to re-create the same series of paths, and hence the same sequence of substitutes, until hundreds of thousands of letters had been enciphered.

one of the essential elements of cryptography: a deliberate transformation of the writing.

For written messages, the Chinese would often write on exceedingly thin silk or paper, which they rolled into a ball and covered with wax. The messenger hid the wax ball, or "la wan," somewhere about his person, or in his rectum, or he sometimes swallowed it.

as the taint of getting involved with anything CIA. You never got more than half the story from them, and half of that was a lie.

Those who spy on the people end up themselves being spied on by the people. There's a fundamental democratic logic to it.

Those who spy on the people end up themselves being spied on by the people.

Prime numbers have become secrecy's best friends.

Think you it is easy to get a well-known and beautiful woman alone, away from her husband, at so public a gathering? Think you that, in the company of dozens of guests and nearly as many gossipy servants, a man can just pull such a woman aside into a private closet? It would not be easy for any ordinary man--at least I suspect it would not. I cannot say how ordinary men go about their business.

13th March, 1872.—Finished my letter to Mr. Bennett of the New York Herald, and Despatch No. 3 to Lord Granville. 14th March, 1872.—Mr. Stanley leaves. I commit to his care my journal sealed with five seals: the impressions on them are those of an American gold coin, anna, and half anna, and cake of paint with royal arms. Positively not to be opened.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. —Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand

There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery

As sure as God made black and white, what's done in the dark will be brought to the light.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.

All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.

No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.