#secrecy

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#burden #burdened #diagnosis #enough #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

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#historically #inherently #oaths #open #open society

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction. ↗

— Edward Teller

#addiction #becomes #once #secrecy

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#anyone #ballot #ballot box #ballots #box

No secrecy, no business. ↗

— Toba Beta

#secrecy #business

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place ↗

— David Nicholls

#secret

And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl ↗

— Cecily von Ziegesar

#secrecy #love

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

— Kate Adie

#democracy #good #information #never #secrecy

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#democracy #dictatorship #openness #secrecy #should