Quotes About Secrecy

From a very early age I remember a phrase being quietly passed around among our relatives at Six Nations: "Be proud you are an Indian, but be careful who you tell.

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.

At heart, women are creatures of darkness all the time.

It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.

If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.

The thing that matters is not what they show me but what they hide from me and, above all, what they do not suspect is in them.

The portion of the "Letter to the Congress" kept secret at the time of writing remained unopened during the first few months after Lenin died. It was probably fortunate for Stalin's emotional equilibrium in those tense months that he continued in ignorance of the fact that Lenin had intended to unseat him from the post of general secretary. The blow was hard enough to sustain when it came.

was suspected in certain quarters of informing to the police on people whom he wished to see removed from the scene.

N]ot my name, my secret idea of myself.

Maintenez votre entourage dans l'incertitude et le flou en ne révélant jamais le but qui se cache derrière vos actions. S'ils n'ont aucune idée de ce que vous prévoyez, ils ne pourront pas préparer de défense. Guidez-les assez loin dans une autre direction, enveloppez-les d'un écran de fumée et quand ils perceront à jour vos desseins, il sera trop tard.

Yet another way of avoiding the game would be perfect honesty and straightforwardness, since one of the main techniques of those who seek power is deceit and secrecy. But being perfectly honest will inevitably hurt and insult a great many people, some of whom will choose to injure you in return.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense. Guide them far enough down the wrong path, envelop them in enough smoke, and by the time they realize your intentions, it will be too late.

CONCEAL YOUR INTENTIONS

Never make it too clear what you are doing or about to do.

As Winston Churchill said, "Truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

People are enthralled by mystery; because it invites constant interpretation, they never tire of it. The mysterious cannot be grasped. And what cannot be seized and consumed creates power.

There is no such thing as a secret—not really, not in the modern world, not with photography and telegraphy and railways and newspaper presses.

The old days of an inner circle of like-minded souls communicating with parchment and quill pens are gone. Sooner or later most things will be revealed.

It is my first lesson in the cabalistic power of "secret intelligence": two words that can make otherwise sane men abandon their reason and cavort like idiots.

He looked like a lodger who always kept himself to himself, or a nightwatchman who disappeared in the morning as soon as the day shift arrived.

An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.

The nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or both. Usually, it's all done in secrecy, or if not, they try to make it seem as if they're doing something other than what they are.

when what they do is hidden, men sometimes deal with strangers in ways they wouldn't if there were other eyes to see.

a open pot can't hide, a inch-opened door can't hide much, but an open man is hiding the universe. she says something else, but i cannot remember the rest.