#secrecy

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state. ↗

— Cardinal Richelieu

#essential #first #secrecy #state

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place ↗

— David Nicholls

#secret

Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements. ↗

— Katherine Neville

#secrecy #life

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#democracy #dictatorship #openness #secrecy #should

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#exact #exists #facts #hard #hysteria

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children. ↗

— Maria Monk

#attempt #children #convent #far #i

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#authentic #been #belief #come #could

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#freedom #secrecy #tyrants

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card. ↗

— Ron Paul

#absolutely #am #card #contradiction #free

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#burden #burdened #diagnosis #enough #secrecy