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Quotes About Secrecy

and a hero at first, but they didn't know
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Love, sorrow, and wealth are the three things that cannot be concealed.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle
~ Paul Celan
Clean this place out. I want hard drives, gadgets, papers, circuit boards, everything. Grab the pencil sharpener if it looks interesting.
~ Paul Dini
By calling something a secret, we state our right not to reveal, to maintain privacy.
~ Paul Ekman
Political scientists studying the behavior of billionaires find that while many of them push for lower taxes, they do so more or less in secret, presumably because they realize just how unpopular their position really is. This "stealth politics" is, by the way, one reason billionaires can seem much more liberal than they actually are—only the handful of liberals among them speak out in public.
~ Paul Krugman
Phil Schneider was a true patriot who became deeply concerned about what was really going on in the shadows of government. He handed in his extreme high security pass and started to speak the truth publicly. What he revealed is more than enough to demand immediate full disclosure. Seven months after giving one of the lectures quoted here he was found strangled. The "official" cause of death was "suicide." The NWO deals harshly with whistleblowers
~ Unknown
The other half are blissfully unaware that the reality is stranger than science fiction, and that they have been consistently misinformed and lied to by a government that has engineered one of the most successful cover-ups in history.
~ Unknown
Approximately 50% of Americans think that their government is withholding the truth about the Star Visitors but have no idea of how much has been withheld.
~ Unknown
Lom mister,' he said, and winked at me. 'It's the CIA, isn't it? You're an agent, you tell people you're a journalist because that's good cover ...
~ Paul Theroux
Okay. But don't talk to anyone. No writing. No pictures. These people don't want their faces shown.
~ Paul Theroux
covert rituals.
~ Paul Theroux
But the modern masquerade—precisely because the participants were masked—guaranteed anonymity
~ Paul Theroux
This is a triumphant mood for a long trip, just slipping out and not telling anyone, and fairly sure that no one will notice I've gone.
~ Paul Theroux
I found it depressing that no one in Mongolia should know anything of Chernobyl, especially when they themselves had the same sort of nuclear power plants. It was bad enough that they have been colonized and occupied by the Soviets, but it was much worse that this paternalism was taken so literally that they were treated like children and not told anything.
~ Paul Theroux
There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.
~ Paul Virilio
The fear of exposing one's private life gives way to the desire to over-expose it to every one.
~ Paul Virilio
It is something a man would never have thought of, or at least would never have dared express. And
~ Pauline Réage
To this day, no one knows who Pauline Réage is.
~ Pauline Réage
You only need to hide if you're doing something you shouldn't.
~ Paulo Coelho
Be transparent in your actions, and secret in your plans
~ Paulo Coelho
I feel like saying: Yes, I did something I shouldn't have done and yet I don't feel the tiniest bit guilty, just afraid of being found out.
~ Paulo Coelho
Everything seemed wrapped in an aura of oppressive silence; it seemed that no one wanted to share their inner world with strangers.
~ Paulo Coelho
The purpose of art is mystery.
~ Rene Magritte