#secrecy

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it. ↗

#democracy #good #information #never #secrecy

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive. ↗

#deception #meant #requires #secrecy #while

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

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

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#life

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

— Diane Arbus

#photography #secrecy #secrets #art

Secrecy is an idea which presumes men can't read minds to each other. ↗

— Toba Beta

#planted #secrecy #men

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

— Thomas Carlyle

#element #even #goodness #mysterious #secrecy

We don't need secrecy. ↗