Secrecy Quotes

Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.

Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.

Conceal thy domestic ills.

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 is the beginning of tyranny

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.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.

What thou seest, speak of with caution.

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

What thou intendest to do, speak not of before thou doest it.

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

To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.

We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

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.

Keep your misfortunes to yourself.

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

The secret known to two is no longer a secret.

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.

Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.