Secrecy Quotes
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It's wrong that the Imperial Household Agency controls archives of the Showa Era and denies Japanese people access to imperial documents that could shed light on the political process during the Showa Era. That process led to disaster, and Japanese people will be constantly assessing this. They need all the information and all the data they can possibly get. Bureaucratic habits of secrecy aren't going to help the situation. (Quote by - Herbert Bix)
Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly. (Quote by - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller)
The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets. (Quote by - Muslih-un-Din Sadi)
While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive. (Quote by - Sissela Bok)
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself. (Quote by - M. Night Shyamalan)
Abuse exists because of secrecy. If I can use this platform and talk about it and break the silence, somebody can get the help and support they need. It's such a common problem, and it doesn't need to be. All you have to do is talk about it and break the silence. (Quote by - Chris Witty)
There is no doubt that constitutional freedoms will never be abolished in one fell swoop, for the American people cherish their freedoms, and would not tolerate such a loss if they could perceive it. But the erosion of freedom rarely comes as an all-out frontal assault but rather as a gradual, noxious creeping, cloaked in secrecy, and glossed over by reassurances of greater security. (Quote by - Robert Byrd)
What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine! (Quote by - Sir Philip Sidney)
Even in your thought, do not curse the king, nor in your bedchamber curse the rich; for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter. (Quote by - Bible)
All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests. (Quote by - W. Stanley Jevons)
This is not a matter of red versus blue. Conservatives desire a government that does not exceed its legitimate authority. Liberals desire a government that is accountable and responsive to the needs of the public. But secrecy thwarts both of those desires. (Quote by - James Neff)
A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. (Quote by - James Madisom)
There are more secrets, but there is not more secrecy. (Quote by - Steven Garfinkel)
Silence and secrecy has been the most frustrating component of this case. It just seems inhumane that information about this child can be forbidden on the theory that it's somehow protecting her privacy, when you consider that this child almost died under the state's care. (Quote by - Wendy Murphy)
'Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The San Francisco Chronicle unconditionally stands by its reporters in fighting this effort by the government to force them to reveal their confidential sources. Reporters are not subject to the rules governing grand jury secrecy, which apply only to some of the people in the room during those proceedings. (Quote by - Phil Bronstein)
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret. (Quote by - Daniel Schorr)
There are inscriptions on our hearts which, like that on, Dighton rock, are never to be seen, except at dead-low tide. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly. (Quote by - Fritz Sauckel)
When the state constitution grants each citizen an inalienable right to privacy, it's talking about individuals seeking safety from an overreaching government, not an elected official trying to evade the oversight of constituents. It's the difference between seeking protection from tyranny and seeking protection from democracy. (Quote by - Jon Mendelson)
The time has come to lift the veil of secrecy, and let the truth emerge, so there can be a real and informed debate, about one of the most important problems facing our planet today. (Quote by - Paul Hellyer)
In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others. (Quote by - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn)
Secrecy can be a killer. Many couples get married in their late 20s or even early 30s and are used to being independent. Having separate accounts allows the couple to maintain some financial independence while being completely open about it. (Quote by - Sheryl Garrett)
We're talking about grand jury secrecy in part, and we're talking about a different type of motion that has been filed under seal and is to remain under seal until the court orders its disclosure. (Quote by - George Shaffer)
Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide - skill loves the light. (Quote by - Daniel C. Gelman)
The officer has acknowledged unauthorized discussions with the media and the unauthorized sharing of classified information. That is a violation of the secrecy agreement that everyone signs as a condition of employment with the CIA. (Quote by - Paul Gimigliano)
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it. (Quote by - Jean De La Bruyere)
These guys are suffering in secrecy and shame. Sometimes they put it out of their brain. (Quote by - Patrick Noaker)
Keep your misfortunes to yourself. (Quote by - William Hazlitt (1)
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The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented. (Quote by - Jimmy Breslin)
A government by secrecy benefits no one. It injures the people it seeks to serve; it damages its own integrity and operation. It breeds distrust, dampens the fervor of its citizens and mocks their loyalty. (Quote by - Russell Long)
The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it. (Quote by - George P. Shultz)
Speaking out about violence against women in our communities is important because the problem finds its power in secrecy. Naming the problem and visibly speaking out against it is a way to dissolve the grip these crimes have on communities of women across our nation. (Quote by - Carol Jordan)
The Hall of Fame was established to recognize the work and accomplishments of those who have made a difference in the battle against government secrecy. (Quote by - Paul McMasters)
Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. (Quote by - Lord Acton)
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being. (Quote by - Georg Simmel)
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Nay, further still, we must consider all circumstances as secrets intrusted which would bring scandal upon another if told. (Quote by - Leigh Hunt)
Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves. (Quote by - Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort)
There's a big cloud of secrecy that is hung over that abortion clinic and the only ones who know whether or not they are conforming with the law is the perpetrators themselves. (Quote by - Troy Newman)
Sir Beatle is inviting 300 people. They are all sworn to secrecy, lest this get in the papers. (Quote by - Cindy Adams)
There's a big difference between privacy and secrecy. (Quote by - Olivia Mellan)
He was a wise fellow, and had good discretion, that, being bid to ask what he would of the king, desired he might know none of his secrets. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Secrecy seems to be the default here. It appears the judge wants to discourage media coverage. (Quote by - Steven Aftergood)
When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)
What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away. (Quote by - Chinese saying)
Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction. (Quote by - Edward Teller)
Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
This law wasn't designed to make your job easy. It was designed to keep your actions legal. (Quote by - Ray Don Jackson)
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. (Quote by - Goethe)
There's something about official life that makes people want to have power. And secrecy is power. (Quote by - Anthony Lewis)
Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy. (Quote by - Ramsey Clark)
The reason that the press corps in Washington is so exercised about this is, in part, the secrecy that Vice President Cheney has brought around his entire operation from day one as vice president. (Quote by - David Rubin)
Secrecy is best taught by commencing with ourselves. (Quote by - Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort)
What thou intendest to do, speak not of before thou doest it. (Quote by - Pittacus of Mitylene)
Assurances mean little without accurate information and accountability. The principle that government information belongs to the people is more than a quaint idea. (Quote by - Joy Horowitz)
The whole problem here is the lack of information that is available. These people exist (under)
a veil of secrecy. (Quote by - Mark Pleasant)
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master. (Quote by - John Dryden)
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect. (Quote by - Sissela Bok)
Why not look instead for evidence of cowardice, secrecy, and dishonesty -- the traits displayed by so many bishops which magnified the crisis into a public scandal? (Quote by - Francis DeBernardo)
The White House has dodged the truth about torture for too long. With reports of torture in the news virtually every day, it is imperative the president and all in his administration end the secrecy and end the torture. This campaign will allow thousands of Americans to demand that torture in our names is not committed again and insist that the president speak the truth in his State of the Union address about this heinous crime. (Quote by - Dr. William F. Schulz)
The struggle of the government's need for secrecy versus the public's right to know and the press's duty to find out and tell is unending. Too frequently it is discussed in public print in connection with the misguided efforts of a bureaucrat to cover up stupidity or wrongdoing. It deserves more serious consideration for it raises Fundamental questions about government-press relations in a time of international peril -- a condition likely to continue for the indefinite future. (Quote by - Douglas Cater)
This issue seems to be shrouded in secrecy. (Quote by - Datuk Teo Chiang Kok)
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone. (Quote by - Henry Bessemer)
God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others. (Quote by - Muslih-un-Din Sadi)
I find she loves him because she hides it. Love teaches cunning even to innocence; and when he gets possession, his first work is to dig deep within a heart, and there lie hid, and like a miser in the dark, feast alone. (Quote by - John Dryden)
We thought this case was pure intimidation; the only thing stopping us from getting the murderer brought to justice is secrecy. (Quote by - Catherine McCartney)
What these open government laws do is break down that wall of government secrecy so that everybody knows what's going on. A democracy can only function if we have information. You can only have oversight of government if you have information. (Quote by - Lucy Dalglish)
Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you to see how poor a job they are doing. (Quote by - Richard Wexler)
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Sell your confidence at a high price, if at all; to be strong, keep your own counsel. (Quote by - Alexandre Dumas pere)
As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
If a fool knows a secret, he tells it because he is a fool; if a knave knows one, he tells it wherever it is his interest to tell it. (Quote by - Philip Dormer Stanhope)
Tremendous secrecy is still the norm. Any external peek into how it works is very rare and very valuable. (Quote by - David Clohessy)
I don't want to be insensitive to legitimate concerns about security and smooth operation. There are legitimate reasons for government officials to withhold some information, but I'm not sure this is one of those situations. I just don't see what the urgent need for secrecy is for these numbers. (Quote by - Bill Lueders)
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. (Quote by - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter)
The desert is mute, and dead men tell no tales. (Quote by - Edouard Rene Lefebure Laboulaye)
Never confide your secrets to paper; it is like throwing a stone in the air; and if you know who throws the stone, you do not know where it may fall. (Quote by - Pedro Calderon de la Barca)
Nothing is so burdensome as a secret. (Quote by - French proverb)
America cannot hold itself as a moral beacon to the world if it violates the rule of law by engaging in illegal spying, torture and secrecy. The ACLU is committed to making sure that our government complies with universally recognized human rights principles and upholds our Constitution. (Quote by - Jamil Dakwar)
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. (Quote by - Elia Kazan)
It's the silence. It's the secrecy. People don't want to here about (sexual abuse)
. (Quote by - Jessica Hope)
If you look at the part about absolute secrecy, that in a nutshell, even though it is very vague, is of utmost importance [to the hearing examiners]. (Quote by - Allison Hrestak)
These surveys confirm the country's growing concern about excessive secrecy. They also show that citizens overwhelmingly believe that open government is good government. The public understands that openness - to the greatest degree possible - will produce government that is more efficient, more honest and more responsive to the citizens it serves. (Quote by - Andy Alexander)
If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself. (Quote by - Seneca)
For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie. (Quote by - Geoffrey Chaucer)
A secret in his mouth, Is like a wild bird put into a cage; Whose door no sooner opens, but 'tis out. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake. (Quote by - William Hazlitt (1)
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I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card. (Quote by - Ron Paul)
Whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops. (Quote by - Bible)
It's really a kick in the head to the secrecy surrounding the National Practitioners' Databank that states are taking this matter into their own hands. (Quote by - Sidney Wolfe)
A secret is like silence: you cannot talk about it, and keep it. It is like money; when once you know there is any concealed, it is half discovered. (Quote by - Paul Chatfield)
The provisions that are a problem are those that minimize judicial scrutiny of searches and surveillance and that increase government secrecy. (Quote by - Timothy Edgar)
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their government, for whenever things go so far wrong as to attract their notice, they can be relied on to set thing right. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Be thine own privy counsellor. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Although I can't make sense out of the rest of it, when I do, it will be in an open courtroom and not hidden behind grand jury secrecy. (Quote by - Hank Coxe)
It breaks down the secrecy, it requires hospitals to report this information. (Quote by - Jim McGreevey)
I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere. (Quote by - William Congreve)
When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys. (Quote by - Owen Felltham)
Thou art sworn as deeply to affect what we intend as closely to conceal what we impart. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Because they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of other treasure belonging to the dead and hidden underground; for they dispose of both with great secrecy, defacing the shape and image of the one as much as of the other. (Quote by - William Davenant)
As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner. (Quote by - Gen. Thomas Harrison)
Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
A man can keep another person's secret better than his own; a woman, on the contrary, keeps her secret though she blabs all others. (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. (Quote by - Alexander Smith)
But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it. (Quote by - Horace)
These claims have no merit. Because of the laws protecting grand-jury secrecy, no other comments can be made. The investigation is continuing. (Quote by - Ronnie Earle)
The Freedom of Information Act is a powerful tool to force the government to disclose information it doesn't want to disclose. Today's requests will pull back the veil of secrecy that the National Security Agency, the Department of Defense and the FBI have used to hide unlawful surveillance. (Quote by - Corey Stoughton)
Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones. (Quote by - Cicero)
Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. (Quote by - Seneca)
Let thy discontents be thy secrets. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The Oscar is the fantasy that you're afraid to believe in, but in the secrecy of your little dark room, you dream and wait for it. (Quote by - Terrence Howard)
While many polling stations around the country opened late -- and maintaining the secrecy of the vote was not always achieved -- polling procedures were generally followed by election officials. (Quote by - Emma Bonino)
Autry also directly criticized Parks. He said the FPOA has had some good leaders who put the community first. ... we are seeing a big departure from that ... Parks would rather operate behind a veil of secrecy, which is not good for the public or the Police Department. (Quote by - Alan Autry)
Be thou assur'd, if words be made of breath, And breath of life, I have no life to breathe What thou hast said to me. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
This was a huge opportunity for the community to get involved. I'm very disappointed with the secrecy and the going behind everyone's back to hire this person. (Quote by - Donna Coleman)
He defers to economic interests over the public health, to executive agencies over the Congress, and to secrecy over the public's right-to-know, ... He's always tweaking the facts to the benefit of insiders. (Quote by - Carl Pope)
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it. (Quote by - Kate Adie)
He only is secret who never was trusted. (Quote by - William Congreve)
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Public records should be organized such that they may be produced within at most a few days of your request. Period. (Quote by - Peyton Wolcott)
I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret. (Quote by - Walter Winchell)
A lot of the stories are inappropriate for this setting. I've been sworn to secrecy. (Quote by - Bobby Carpenter)
Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy. (Quote by - Harrison Salisbury)
He believed the secrecy stamp was something that was improperly used. And I suspect he would think this was a continuing abuse of the secrecy stamp to try to remove embarrassing documents from the public eye. (Quote by - Kevin Anderson)
I think it's just another effort at secrecy. E-mails and voice mails are often the only source of information today. (Quote by - Jon Fleischaker)
The facts are just not that. There's no secrecy (involved)
in terms of the open meetings law. I think we complied. (Quote by - Tad Perry)
He deserves small trust who is not privy counsellor to himself. (Quote by - Thomas Forde)
A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame. (Quote by - Jane Pauley)
Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)
The empress, the midwife, and yourself: Two may keep counsel when the third's away. Go to the empress, tell her this I said. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Who shall be true to us, when we are so unsecret to ourselves? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected (Quote by - Anton Chekhov)
Examining public records should never require extraordinary legal or bureaucratic efforts. When it does, it's usually a red flag. (Quote by - Don Baldwin)
It's a great victory for the people. It's time to end secrecy in government. (Quote by - George Barrett)
It is hardly a process at all. It is more like a lottery. It has become a rather squalid competition with no set procedure, shrouded in Big Power secrecy. They don't even interview the candidates. (Quote by - Brian Urquhart)
In an era of increased government secrecy, it is critical that we protect the 1st Amendment right of government employees to expose government wrong-doing, both to their supervisors and to the public at large. (Quote by - Steven Shapiro)
Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
A CIA officer has been fired for unauthorized contact with the media and for the unauthorized disclosure of classified information. This is a violation of the secrecy agreement that is the condition of employment with CIA. The officer has acknowledged the contact and the disclosures. (Quote by - Paul Gimigliano)
Agrees with the defendant's skepticism of the government's ability to prosecute this case in open court in light of the shroud of secrecy under which it seeks to proceed. (Quote by - Leonie Brinkema)
As a society we seem to be losing our ability to rationally debate complicated policy decisions. Secrecy aggravates the problem by excluding people from the debate, or by narrowing their frames of reference. Nothing less than the future of American democracy is at stake. (Quote by - Steven Aftergood)
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. (Quote by - Bishop Jeremy Taylor)
Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. (Quote by - Karl Von Clausewitz)
You can't just draw a veil of secrecy when you are locking people up. You have to do at least the minimum, which is to acknowledge who you are holding. (Quote by - Jamie Fellner)
Two may keep counsel putting one away! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The key here is the secrecy of the ballot and the integrity of the election, and our system does both. You need to maintain these two often-conflicting requirements to perform [elections] in a secure way, and we do. (Quote by - Jim Adler)
The public has a right to know about misconduct by public officials who are paid for with public tax dollars. (Quote by - Mark Schlosberg)
For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad. (Quote by - Bible)
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say. (Quote by - Henry Taylor)
Fire that is closest kept burns most of all. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The yearnings of a woman's solitary spirit, the outgushings of her shrinking sensibility, the cravings of her alienated heart, are indulged only in the quiet loneliness of her solitude. (Quote by - Bethmont)
Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it. (Quote by - Ric Ocasek)
Secrecy is the freedom zealots dream of: no watchman to check the door, no accountant to check the books, no judge to check the law. The secret government has no constitution. The rules it follows are the rules it makes up. (Quote by - Bill Moyers)
The time for its secrecy is past. It's time for it to come into the light. (Quote by - Nick Cook)
I pray you all, If you have hitherto concealed this sight, Let it be tenable in your silence still. And whatsoever else shall hap to-night, Give it an understanding but no tongue. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
I have problems with the secrecy. (Quote by - George Brown)
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. (Quote by - Patrick Henry)
It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it. (Quote by - Muslih-un-Din Sadi)
We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process of government appointments. (Quote by - Kim Campbell)
Cheney did what he needed to do, but these guys have taken secrecy to a whole new level. (Quote by - Jim Manley)
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
The government has produced all documents and information to which defendant is entitled. Requiring the production of the additional materials sought by defendant would unreasonably encroach on legitimate interests of national security, grand jury secrecy and executive privilege. (Quote by - Patrick Fitzgerald)
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The excitement of having it back on campus and renewing a nationally known event is great. And the secrecy around the theme is just a part of the excitement. It's an easily accessible theme and allows for creativity by the students. (Quote by - Jarret Izzo)
This administration has embraced secrecy as a right. (Quote by - Steven Aftergood)
It is clear that the manner in which state money was directed is problematic for its secrecy, its lack of accountability and its end run around the legislative process. (Quote by - Roy Cooper)
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. (Quote by - Bible)
Women and young men are very apt to tell what secrets they know from the vanity of having been intrusted. (Quote by - Philip Dormer Stanhope)
Anxiety concerning public safety should not become a canard for creating an exemption. To require the public to obtain information on a piecemeal basis does nothing to promote the legislative concerns that have been mandated to our Freedom of Information statute. Open government is not promoted when the public is required to sift through the voluminous documents in various departments and a municipality can counter this by pushbutton automation. (Quote by - Stephen Whitaker)
I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret. (Quote by - George Colman)
There was a lot of secrecy around it. They tried to cover it up. (Quote by - Louis Goseland)
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed. (Quote by - De Witt Clinton)
Far too often when citizens seek records from our government, they are met with long delays, denials and difficulty. Federal agencies can routinely and repeatedly deny requests for information with near impunity. Making the situation worse, requesters have few alternatives to lawsuits to appeal an agency's decision. (Quote by - Sen. John Cornyn)
An uninformed public can do no good. Only with information can we contribute and improve the way we live. Ignorance really is not bliss. The more secrecy we have within our government, the less accountability. (Quote by - Robert Freeman)
Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. (Quote by - Bible)
This is no hoax and we're not sworn to secrecy. We want earthlings to see milk with fresh eyes and recognize its benefits beyond just a calcium source. (Quote by - Steve James)
It's my father's legacy. The government has always, and continues to this day, to abuse the secrecy stamp. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to. (Quote by - Kevin Anderson)
To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge. (Quote by - William Blake)
Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise. (Quote by - George Crabbe)
Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer. (Quote by - Ed Howe)
Secrecy, the secrecy system and the pseudo secrecy system in the United States have gone out of control. (Quote by - Thomas Blanton)
In the past, decommissioning as a process has been shrouded in secrecy and if we are to increase public confidence in the process then we want it to be more transparent. (Quote by - Jeffrey Donaldson)
Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
We have to have court doors open to make sure they (the courts)
are not involved in corrupt actions. As soon as you put asset information behind the cloak of secrecy, then no one will be able to determine that justice is being done. (Quote by - Tom Newton)
Those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account -- to spend wisely, reform bad habits and do our business in the light of day. (Quote by - Barack Obama)
Let your left hand turn away what your right hands attracts. (Quote by - The Talmud)
Countries have no justification for secrecy. (Quote by - Rashad Kaldany)
Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy. (Quote by - Donna Tartt)
The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
A substantial part of the controversy occurred because there was such secrecy in what was going on over there. This is a public charity. It gets a whopping tax exemption because of that status. (Quote by - Hugh Jones)
Data withholding clearly has important negative effects on the integrity of the scientific education system in the U.S.. Failure to address this issue could result in less effective training programs, an erosion of the sense of shared purpose and a general culture of scientific secrecy in the future. (Quote by - Eric Campbell)
Then stop if you're wise, nor the secret let fall, For a secret once told is no secret at all. (Quote by - P.J. Searle)
It changed from a semi-secret occupation without government regulation to something that is transparent, with annual reports and public disclosure. That's a very large change. In the trading area, especially, there was a lot of secrecy. (Quote by - Martin Mayer)
Secrecy has become a growth industry. It makes it harder for ordinary citizens ... to ask questions ... and to hold officials accountable. (Quote by - Steven Aftergood)
I think it's driven by the individual agencies, which have bureaucratic sensitivities to protect. But it was clearly encouraged by the administration's overall embrace of secrecy. (Quote by - Steven Aftergood)
This is the issue that wouldn't go away, ... The pay hike triggered long-standing, simmering anger over the way the Legislature does its business and, indeed, over the way Harrisburg operates. It's a reaction against secrecy and what the voters say is arrogance. (Quote by - Terry Madonna)
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God,--part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Neither hear nor tell secrets. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller (1)
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Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects. (Quote by - Hazrat Ali)
The vice president's secrecy on this and other issues, as well as his numerous false statements concerning pre-war intelligence, is part of a larger pattern of above-the-law, bunker mentality that the Bush administration has embraced. (Quote by - Karen Finney)
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Freedom of information isn't always pretty, and it's also not without its risks. But in a free society, there will always be risk and imperfection. (Quote by - Santa Cruz Sentinal)
Kids love secrecy. The toys feed that same niche as passing notes or writing in a diary. (Quote by - Tim Walsh)
There is no such thing as privacy anymore; there is secrecy. (Quote by - Rich Hersh)
It results in unnecessary secrecy that leaves citizens in the dark. (Quote by - Steven Aftergood)
We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy. (Quote by - Fran Quigley)
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news. (Quote by - John Le Carre)
Abuse of any kind thrives off secrecy. I felt like if I started talking about it, maybe other people would. I wanted to break the silence. Now I feel I'm in a much better place emotionally than I've ever been anytime in my life. (Quote by - Chris Witty)
Deep in my shut and silent heart. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity. (Quote by - Bill Moyers)
For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner. (Quote by - Bible)
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release. (Quote by - Georg Simmel)
And whatsoever else shall hap to-night, Give it an understanding, but no tongue. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
We confide our secrets in friendship, but they escape us in love. (Quote by - Du Coeur)
The same prudence, which, in private life, would forbid our paying our money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the disposition of public moneys. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared. (Quote by - Sissela Bok)
Many of these detainees are begging for the world to know where they are. The court was right to reject the government's pose as guardian of privacy rights when what it's really guarding is its own secrecy. (Quote by - Dave Tomlin)
There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
The truly wise man should have no keeper of his secret but himself. (Quote by - Francois Pierre G. Guizot)
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. (Quote by - Niels Bohr)
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. (Quote by - Lucretius)
Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. (Quote by - William Saroyan)
If state secrecy can prevent us from preserving the rights of millions upon millions of people, then there is a profound problem with the law. (Quote by - Kevin Bankston)
The film's title star, Christian Bale, told me in June that he'd signed a multi-picture contract. When I caught up with Batman Begins ... All I can tell you is, we're talking. There was quite an air of secrecy around the development of 'Batman Begins,' and there will be even more around the development of another film, if they move forward. (Quote by - Christopher Nolan)
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind. (Quote by - Gilbert Parker)
A fundamental premise of American democratic theory is that government exists to serve the people. … Public records are one portal through which the people observe their government, ensuring its accountability, integrity, and equity while minimizing sovereign mischief and malfeasance (Quote by - Sandra Day O'Conner)
Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Every secret place of detention is usually a higher risk for ill treatment, that the danger of secrecy. (Quote by - Manfred Nowak)
He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue. (Quote by - Francis Quarles)
Addiction thrives in secrecy. The only real difference is that they can hide this one easier. (Quote by - Brian Simmons)
Transparency is Big Government's worst enemy. (Quote by - Mark Tapscott)
The judicial system must guarantee journalists the right to protect their sources so that they can work freely. The government must include journalists in the list of professions that enjoy the right to professional secrecy under the law. (Quote by - Reporters Without Borders)
You are in a pitiable condition when you have to conceal what you wish to tell. (Quote by - Syrus)
A woman can keep one secret,--the secret of her age. (Quote by - Voltaire)
We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. (Quote by - Jean De La Bruyere)
Thou hast betrayed thy secret as a bird betrays her nest, by striving to conceal it. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
In that corroding secrecy which gnaws the heart to show the effect, but not the cause. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
The government is trying to shove the NSA and AT&T illegal spying operation under an impenetrable cloak of secrecy. They are essentially arguing that no one can ever go to court to stop illegal surveillance, so long as they claim it was done in the name of national security. (Quote by - Kevin Bankston)
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. (Quote by - Jeremy Bentham)
Nevertheless, Amnesty International welcomes today's actions, as even the seemingly minor details in these documents may help shed light on the secrecy surrounding the detainees' cases. (Quote by - Eric Olson)
He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master. (Quote by - John Dryden)
The Parole Board ... is currently wrapped in secrecy and that secrecy was there initially for good reason. (Quote by - Jim McGinty)
It was the culture of secrecy that allowed corruption to flourish when the Liberals ran things around here. (Quote by - Pat Martin)
Let the people know the facts, and the country will be safe. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
A lot of what goes on over there is shrouded in such secrecy. The North Koreans have made it very, very hard to get out. Over the years, a lot of people have been sent back over the border. In this instance, we had a name. It was very appropriate for the international community to call it out. (Quote by - Jay Lefkowitz)
So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children. (Quote by - Maria Monk)
With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
It is a secret in the Oxford sense. You may tell it to only one person at a time. (Quote by - Oliver Franks)
There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery. (Quote by - Bob Schaffer)
Leaks are good. There is too much secrecy in our government. Sometimes the government knows about a problem and it takes a leak to embarrass the bureaucracy and get them to do something about it. (Quote by - Joan Claybrook)
The issuance of a subpoena is obviously a cover for collusion, and the leaking of the subpoena makes a mockery of grand jury secrecy. (Quote by - Bob Bennett)
The secrecy that shrouded the vote counting by the special election committee cast doubts on the results and lacks transparency. (Quote by - Hosni Mubarak)
I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain. (Quote by - Philip Massinger)
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state (Quote by - Cardinal Richelieu)
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. (Quote by - Harry Houdini)
The most unfortunate thing about the system is the secrecy of the board. (Quote by - Kirby Dick)
Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
No violation is dumb because we're talking about the Constitution here. Fisher should not be calling the other members of the commission. There is no such thing as a trivial violation of the Constitution. Secrecy is not the way to build confidence. Openness is the way to build confidence. (Quote by - Barbara Peterson)
Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret. (Quote by - Marlene Dietrich)
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession. (Quote by - Georg Simmel)
Government that is open and honest will always be able to withstand the light of day. (Quote by - Rick Perry)
There is no question that there are more restrictions coming down. There is rampant secrecy in both federal and state courtrooms. (Quote by - Lucy Dalglish)
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard. (Quote by - Jean De La Fontaine)
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it. (Quote by - Georg Simmel)
You may act in secrecy, but God is still with you; you can only deceive other people. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three. (Quote by - James Howell)
This calls into question every time the government has relied on national security to impose secrecy. The only reason to gag our clients was to stifle their free speech rights in the debate over the Patriot Act. The government flip-flop confirms our suspicions. (Quote by - Ann Beeson)
No one keeps a secret so well as a child. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious. (Quote by - Wangari Maathai)
A secret at home is like rocks under tide. (Quote by - Dinah Maria Mulock)
They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they get out to the floor. And it's hard to lick em at that stage. They're a closed corporation. When they stick together, you can't lick em on the floor. (Quote by - John William McCormack)
The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)
The secret known to two is no longer a secret. (Quote by - Ninon de L'Enclos)
The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate secrecy. (Quote by - Achim Steiner)
The fact of secrecy makes the public question the truthfulness of what is made public. The final result is to weaken the institutions on which America was founded. (Quote by - Jack N)
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. (Quote by - Carroll Quigley)
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect. (Quote by - Isak Dinesen)
The manner in which state money was directed is problematic for its secrecy, its lack of accountability and its end run around the legislative process. (Quote by - Roy Cooper)
When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful of those who manage them, and -- eventually -- incapable of determining their own destinies. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)
Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
Constant you are, but yet a woman; and for secrecy, no lady closer; for I well believe thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The public concern for the secrecy that has surrounded this project should be on full alert as information about trying to sell this project to a foreign country has been brought to light. (Quote by - Linda Godfrey)
Suicide in Ireland is a problem that nobody wants to talk about. Where you've got stigma, you get fear and secrecy - it becomes a vacuum. (Quote by - Kevin Malone)
