#secrecy

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. ↗

— Sissela Bok

#both #breathing #burden #childhood #confers

Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ... Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families ... and you have no idea ... what games goes on! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#detectives #families #family-life #gentility #hidden-guilt

Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#because #competitor #covered #data #dive

Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy. ↗

— Harrison Salisbury

#kremlin #life #secrecy #shrouded #within

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it. ↗

— Ric Ocasek

#efficiency #enemy #know #secrecy

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#photography #secrecy #secrets #art

There are springs in the mind from which others cannot drink. ↗

— Clay Griffith

#mind-thoughts #secrecy #nature

You should not honor men more than truth. ↗

— Plato

#honor #secrecy #truth #men

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

We don't need secrecy. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#secrecy