#secrecy

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#almost #anonymity #because #continued #dreaded

Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#difference #oh #privacy #secrecy #well

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better. ↗

— Peter Singer

#behave #better #citizens #could #dark

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#club #even #houses #love #need

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction. ↗

— Edward Teller

#addiction #becomes #once #secrecy

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#secret

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly. ↗