Quotes About Secrecy

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is carried on by the departments, chancelleries and General Staffs. Parliament itself is given up to talk for the special purpose of fooling the 'common people.

I was less the keeper of a soccer goal than the keeper of a secret.

A woman can keep one secret - the secret of her age

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

By the time we got home, Grandma would be cooking breakfast, and Grandpa always slipped me something under the table—bacon, ham, a piece of toast. I learned to chew silently so that Grandma wouldn't say, "Are you feeding the dog again?" The tone in her voice when I picked up the word "dog" suggested to me that Grandpa and I needed to keep the whole operation quiet.

Conspiracy theories are, like horror, tales of how the worst thing you imagine is true. "You think things are bad? Well, let me tell you, buddy, you don't know the half of it.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

Be secret and exult Because of all things known That is most difficult

If a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer 'writer' for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer poetry would embarrass us both.

We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.

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.

I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

He is safe who admits no one to his confidence.

Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.

Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer, " he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.

Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the 70s.