Definition of Secrecy

Secrecy

The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy.

That which is concealed; a secret.

Seclusion; privacy; retirement.

The quality of being secretive; fidelity to a secret; forbearance of disclosure or discovery.

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Secrecy Quotations

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.
John F. Kennedy

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Thomas Carlyle

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

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

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
Karl Von Clausewitz

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.
Carroll Quigley

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

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
Edward Teller

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

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

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
Elia Kazan

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.
John Le Carre

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

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.
Alanis Morisette

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.
Donna Tartt

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
Bill Moyers

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

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.
Maria Monk

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

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.
Bob Schaffer

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
Georg Simmel

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

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Jeremy Taylor

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

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.
Sissela Bok

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

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.
John William McCormack

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

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Secrecy Translations

secrecy in German is Heimlichkeit, Heimlichkeit, Geheimhaltung
secrecy in Spanish is secreto
secrecy in Swedish is hemlighet

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