#secrecy

The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret. Fear means we are willing to give up our rights and liberties for promises of security. The imposition of fear ensures that the corporations that wrecked the country cannot be challenged. Fear keeps us penned in like livestock. ↗

— Chris Hedges

#fear #secrecy #death

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#element #even #goodness #mysterious #secrecy

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news. ↗

— John le Carre

#better #between #contemptuous #demonstrated #digest

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. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#am #assistants #ever #far #his

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America. ↗

— George McGovern

#come #deception #high #high places #home

The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#english #especially #novel #personal #requires

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of. ↗