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Quotes About Secrecy

Lastly, I accuse the first court-martial of having violated the law by condemning an accused person on one document kept secret, and I accuse the second court-martial of having, in obedience to orders, covered this illegality by committing in its turn the judicial crime of knowingly acquitting a guilty person.
~ Émile Zola
Sé por instinto que su reserva procede de una aversión a las exhibiciones extravagantes de los sentimientos..., a las manifestaciones de mutua amabilidad. Amará y odiará con igual secreto y considerará una impertinencia ser, a su vez, amado u odiado.
~ Emili Bronte
ocúpate de que me entierren allí en secreto. Y si no lo haces así, ya te demostraré de un modo palpable que los muertos no se disuelven del todo.
~ Emily Bronte
The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.
~ Emily Dickinson
I'm a Nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? There's a pair of us- don't tell!
~ Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!
~ Emily Dickinson
Yo no soy nadie, ¿y tú? ¿No eres nadie tampoco? Entonces somos dos, guarda el secreto. Ya sabes que podrían desterrarnos.
~ Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
~ Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you—Nobody—Too?
~ Emily Dickinson
right—secrets and lies are really the same thing
~ Emily Giffin
It's all real in Outside, everything there is, because I saw an airplane in the blue between the clouds. Ma and me can't go there because we don't know the secret code, but it's real all the same. Before I didn't know to be mad that we can't open Door, my head was too small to have Outside in it.
~ Emma Donoghue
Bridie and I turned to each other. Oh, the secrecy and heat of that glance.
~ Emma Donoghue
No one knows we're there, no one sees us. We never leave the room. I think about the secret voice you use when you make love. No one but that person will ever hear it. And here, we listen to each other, but we lock it in with touch, and the room vacuum seals it to stay fresh until we can breathe together again. When he breaks the silence it is to say, I want you to know that, when you get pregnant, nothing is going to change except your dress size.
~ Emma Forrest
Being part of a secret is a great source of strength.
~ Eoin Colfer
Hat dich jemand reinkommen sehen? Ja, das FBI, die CIA, die NSA, die DEA und das MI6. Ach ja, und die GPB. Die GPB? Gesamte Polizeibelegschaft.
~ Eoin Colfer
Mulch locked his mouth and threw away the key.
~ Eoin Colfer
He glanced up sharply when Holly entered through the pneumatic double doors. "Anybody see you come in here?" Holly thought about it. "The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB." Foaly frowned. "The EIB?" "Everyone in the building." Holly smirked.
~ Eoin Colfer
Ze zou het hem nooit of te nimmer vertellen, maar als er ooit een mens ingeschakeld moest worden om het elfenvolk te redden, dan was Artemis vermoedelijk de beste kandidaat voor deze klus.
~ Eoin Colfer
In time, the Cancún Event, as it came to be known, would be mentioned in the same breath as Area 51 or the Yeti Migration.
~ Eoin Colfer
The "underground railroad" should be understood not as a single entity but as an umbrella term for local groups that employed numerous methods to assist fugitives, some public and entirely legal, some flagrant violations of the law.
~ Eric Foner
The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.
~ Eric Hoffer
I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your home.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Yes, the success of open source does call into some question the utility of command-and-control systems, of secrecy, of centralization, and of certain kinds of intellectual property. It would be almost disingenuous not to admit that it suggests (or at least harmonizes well with) a broadly libertarian view of the proper relationship between individuals and institutions.
~ Eric S. Raymond
The current demand for marijuana and pornography is deeply revealing. Here are two commodities that Americans publicly abhor, privately adore, and buy in astonishing amounts.
~ Eric Schlosser