S Quotes
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“Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.”
“Secrecy destroys accountability.”
Source: Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State
“Secrecy doesn't attach to particular parties; it attaches to power. All of the bull work is in place for whomever succeeds. That's my concern.”
“Secrecy fuels erotic intensity because it makes you feel like you're doing something that is entirely yours. It gives you the sense of autonomy, the sense of freedom, and the sense of sovereignty. And then you add to that the sexual energy. In many affairs, people will tell you they slept with the person three or four times, but the story went on for months. That's an important thing because many people who have affairs often have very good sexual relationships at home. It's not necessarily a compensation story. But affairs offer a different sexuality with a different context.”
“Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.”
“Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.”
“Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.”
“Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.”
Source: Gesamtausgabe
“Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.”
Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“Secrecy is an idea which presumes
men can't read minds to each other.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.”
“Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.”
Source: Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation
“Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.”
“Secrecy is for losers.”
Source: Secrecy: The American Experience
“Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.”
“Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.”
“Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.”
“Secrecy is our shield. It is how we defend lesser men from themselves.”
Source: Lion El'Jonson: Lord of the First
“Secrecy is strength, what people don't know they can't spoil.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Secrecy is the best way to show people your results!”
“Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.”
Source: The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings
“Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.”
“Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.”
“Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.”
“Secrecy is the foundation of politics.”
“Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.”
“Secrecy is the greenhouse in which addiction blooms, flourishes, and metastasizes. The unfortunate reality of addiction, though, is that all active addicts keep secrets and tell lies. They really have no choice. An addict must lie in order to protect her supply. You cannot be an active addict without lying, because your interior world would collapse. If you didn’t have access to the substance, person, or behavior that regulates your nervous system, and your exterior world would collapse if people knew what you were up to—because what you are up to is not socially acceptable. Hell, what you are up to might not even be acceptable to you, which is how addicts learn to lie to themselves before they lie to anyone else. Thus the addict’s reality becomes split between what she’s doing in the shadows (sometimes even behind her own back) and what she is allowing other people to see.”
Source: All the Way to the River
“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 linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.”
Source: No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
“Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.”
Source: Neuropolitique
“Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.”
Source: Hypocrisy: A Satire
“Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.”
Source: Gesamtausgabe
“Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.”
“Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.”
Source: The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies
“Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.”
Source: WWW: Watch
“Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.”
“Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.”
“Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.”
“Secret agreements between the Saudis and various U.S. presidents dated back to the early postwar era and continued into the twenty-first century. Thanks to a pact between President Harry Truman and King Ibn Saud in 1947, the United States vowed to come to Saudi Arabia's defense if it was attacked. Likewise, in 1963, President Kennedy sent a squadron of fighter jets to protect Saudi Arabia when Egypt's Gamel Abdel Nasser attempted to kill members of the Saudi royal family.”
Source: House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
“Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way of tracking down the drug traffickers.”
“Secret ceremonies in which malevolent men and women cloaked in hooded robes, hiding behind painted faces and chanting demonic incantations while inflicting sadistic wounds on innocent children lying on makeshift alters, or tied to inverted crosses, sounds like the stuff of which B-grade horror movies are made. Some think amoral religious cults only populate the world of Rosemary's Baby, but don't exist in real life.
Or, do they? Ask Jenny Hill.”
Source: Twenty-Two Faces
“Secret Cinema has created a new way of experiencing film. The fusion of film and theatre allows for a much more powerful experience and adds an incredibly unique dimension for the audience. It certainly did for me. I was blown away”
“Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.”
Source: Poems New and Collected
“Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society.”
“Secret de mon univers: imaginer Dieu sans l'immortalité de l'âme.”
Source: Primeiros Cadernos
“Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted with excuses, blame, and counter-blame. But sense is made of the world only through relationship between action and reaction, symptom and cause. No change is possible without analysis of accountability.”
Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide
“Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.”
“Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.”