A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
Jane Pauley
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.
Fritz Sauckel
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.
Harry Houdini
Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.
Donna Tartt
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
Georg Simmel
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.
Ron Paul
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
M. Night Shyamalan
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.
Gilbert Parker
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.
Henry Bessemer
Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.
Harrison Salisbury
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
Georg Simmel
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Jeremy Taylor
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Thomas Carlyle
Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.
Ric Ocasek
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
Cardinal Richelieu
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
Duc De Richelieu
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
Bill Moyers
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
Georg Simmel
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
Georg Simmel
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
Jeremy Bentham
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