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While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.


Sissela Bok

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IAN MCEWAN Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
THOMAS CARLYLE I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society ...
RON PAUL Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.
DANIEL C. GELMAN Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.
DANIEL C. GELMAN From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful th...
GEORGE MCGOVERN Sir Beatle is inviting 300 people. They are all sworn to secrecy, lest this get in the papers.
CINDY ADAMS Secrecy is the badge of fraud.
SIR JOHN CHADWICK Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
JEREMY TAYLOR Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Secrecy is the foundation of politics.
BING GORDON Secrecy begets tyranny.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Mysteries are due to secrecy.
FRANCIS BACON If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. [Ger., Wer den...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table amon...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. - Sir Th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mi...
PHILIP MASSINGER Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. [Lat., Vitae poscaenia celant.]
LUCRETIUS (TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS) We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. [Fr., L'on confie son secre...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner. - Gen. Thomas Harrison,
GEN. THOMAS HARRISON For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be kn...
BIBLE For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that non...
BIBLE Thee is a skeleton on every house.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
ED HOWE Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodl...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A man can hide all things, excepting twain-- That he is drunk, and that he is in love.
ANTIPHANES OF MACEDONIA How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistine...
BIBLE The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us...
BIBLE The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; pati...
HAZRAT ALI (A.S) A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I pray you all, If you have hitherto concealed this sight, Let it be tenable in your silence s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE hooh this is such butleg i cant believe it
DUK ONCH That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
DAVID NICHOLLS I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or m...
OSCAR WILDE Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of
BILL MOYERS Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
BILL MOYERS Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state
CARDINAL RICHELIEU The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
EDWARD TELLER Sworn to secrecy, You better catch it early.
PHIL GARNER Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU Self-deception helps us deceive,
DAVID LIVINGSTONE Privacy seems not an illusion for those
who want to believe in secrecy principle.
TOBA BETA Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements.
KATHERINE NEVILLE Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
ALEXANDER POPE There's a big difference between privacy and secrecy,
OLIVIA MELLAN A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
JANE PAULEY Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.
HEATHER BROOKE Secrecy is an idea which presumes
men can't read minds to each other.
TOBA BETA Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
IAN HACKING Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.
HARRISON SALISBURY These leaks make a mockery of the traditional rules of grand jury secrecy. They often appear to be a...
DAVID KENDALL All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM While many polling stations around the country opened late -- and maintaining the secrecy of the vot...
EMMA BONINO The most unfortunate thing about the system is the secrecy of the board.
KIRBY DICK Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
SISSELA BOK We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attrac...
SISSELA BOK The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is r...
DE WITT CLINTON These surveys confirm the country's growing concern about excessive secrecy.
ANDY ALEXANDER Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.
RIC OCASEK The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman...
BEN MACINTYRE All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, an...
W. STANLEY JEVONS He believed the secrecy stamp was something that was improperly used. And I suspect he would think t...
KEVIN ANDERSON Anytime Saudis are returned under a veil of secrecy, I'm suspicious,
CHARLES SCHUMER It results in unnecessary secrecy that leaves citizens in the dark.
STEVEN AFTERGOOD Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be ind...
CHARLES FORT There was a lot of secrecy around it. They tried to cover it up.
LOUIS GOSELAND Behind every truth lies a hidden truth.
AARON SANTOS The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting t...
CHRIS HEDGES It's a great victory for the people. It's time to end secrecy in government.
GEORGE BARRETT Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.
ALAN FURST The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.
GEORGE P. SHULTZ The higher the classification [of secrecy], the quicker you will report it.
GEORGE P. SHULTZ Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them ...
YOKO ONO People equate patents with secrecy, that secrecy is what patents were designed to overcome. That'...
CRAIG VENTER There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is n...
JOSEPH PULITZER Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will co...
ELIA KAZAN Love is beautiful,
A beautiful deception.
One falls in it
To deceive the other
AMIT ABRAHAM Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
JEREMY BENTHAM 'Orphan Black' tends to, for their auditions, shroud it in secrecy and change names.
ARI MILLEN A culture of secrecy is like the bad stench created by cat pee—it is very difficult to get rid of.
PIERRE DE VOS Tremendous secrecy is still the norm. Any external peek into how it works is very rare and very valu...
DAVID CLOHESSY Every secret place of detention is usually a higher risk for ill treatment, that the danger of secre...
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