“In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.” RealSometimesSecretDemocracyDanger Author:Stuart Symington
“It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic. It's about the soul of America, really. What people brought to America; what found them when they came; and the things that lie sleeping beneath it all.” PeopleBookSoulAmericaRomanceLyingFoundSleepSecretMagicDangerStrangeMirrorsDepth Author:Neil Gaiman
“What is dangerous is not minarets, but basements and garages that hide clandestine places of worship. Thus we must choose between mosques, where we know that the rules of the republic are respected, and secret places where extremism has been developing for too long,.” KnowsLongHas BeensReligionSecretDangerousDangerWorshipDevelopingRepublicExtremismGarageBasementsMosquesSecret PlacesClandestinePlaces Of Worship Author:Nicolas Sarkozy
“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. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.” PeopleIfsLittlesLongFactsTodayValuesNationsSecretDangerSurvivalTraditionDecidedThreatJustifyLong AgoArbitrarySecrecyRestrictionOathOpposingProceedingImitatingSecret SocietyPertinentConcealment Author:John F. Kennedy
“To prevent wars, people must criticize, in their own country, the abuses that occur in their own country. The role taboos play in the preparation for war. The number of shameful secrets keeps growing incessantly, boundlessly. How meaningless all censorship taboos become, and how meaningless the consequences for overstepping them, when your life is in danger.” PeopleWarCountryPlayLife IsNumbersSecretRolesGrowingDangerConsequenceAbusePreparationCriticizeMeaninglessCensorshipTabooShamefulIncessantlyOverstepping Author:Christa Wolf
“But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets.” MindHumansImportantSecretDangerConnectedKeeping Secrets Author:Daniel Ellsberg
“Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.” IfsWayGivingHumansKindFacesCoursesGamesSocialSecretFireDangerousCarDangerProjectsGood ThingsThreatDrivingHandleAll KindsSubstancePlanesFrightenedElectricityLsdFreewaysDriving On Author:Alan Watts