#secrecy

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

— Clay Griffith

#mind-thoughts #secrecy #nature

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

We don't need secrecy. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#secrecy

From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#aura #been #beginning #closeted #continues

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#secrecy #speed #surprise

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