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.
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.
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
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.
He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.
Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.
In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.
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.
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)
In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.
We don't need secrecy.
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.
Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.
there is no pornography without a secrecy.