Quotes About Secrecy

If I said what I was really thinking about this f**ked up world, the government would assassinate me like all the other people they've killed.

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

One of the things I think is really problematic about something like [government] spyware is that it isn't transparent - because of that anonymity and that secrecy, there aren't laws to regulate it.

Experiment or not, the government is always watching. - Felix

For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.

Smartass Disciple: Master, what is the secret recipe of your happiness?Master of Stupidity: If I tell you, there is nobody left to be made fun of.

...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.

Nobody knows because Team Obama has conveniently arranged for you to be kept in the dark on your health insurance costs until after everyone votes next week.

I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near!

Depression thrives in secrecy but shrinks in empathy.

Being anonymous on help, it's feel's awesome.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

Many of the most important stories in the history of modern journalism have come from sources who have taken information without authorization.

More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles bills and proclamations.

Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

We should wash our dirty linen at home.

Secrets are lies by another name.

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

There's something in everyone only they know.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.