Secrecy Quotes

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

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.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

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.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

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.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.