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Secrecy Quotes - Page 3

Secrecy is for losers.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1999). “Secrecy: The American Experience”, p.1, Yale University Press

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

Charles Caleb Colton (1812). “Hypocrisy: A Satire”, p.167

Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 695-96, Oedipus, 826, 1922.

In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.

Robert K. Massie (2012). “The Romanovs: The Final Chapter”, p.73, Random House

Secrecy begets tyranny.

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.32, Penguin

What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.195

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan (1812). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...”, p.237

Power expands through the distribution of secrecy.

Interviewed with Pip Ayers, Daily Mail's Live Magazine, July 10, 2011.

Secrecy destroys accountability.

Ralph Nader (2014). “Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State”, p.65, Nation Books

Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.173, Oxford University Press

There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

Francis Bacon (1858). “Works of Francis Bacon: 6”, p.428

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

Francis Bacon (1838). “The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay”, p.265