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When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.
Diane von Furstenberg
You
Door
Fantasy
Hotel
While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.
John O. Brennan
People
Intelligence
Important
Matters
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Together
Nothing
Like
Others
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
People
Society
Free
Secret
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Thomas Carlyle
Beauty
Mysterious
Goodness
Virtue
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.
Noam Chomsky
War
American
Participation
Civil War
Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
Yoko Ono
People
Information
Office
Us
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Niels Bohr
Best
Democracy
Dictatorship
Weapon
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
Jeremy Bentham
Government
Never
Being
Conspiracy
Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama's early emphasis on openness in government seems almost inevitable.
Noah Feldman
Sorry
Government
Consequences
Early
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Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the arts of silence.
Noah Feldman
Relationship
Silence
Religion
Born
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
Time
Peace
Moment
Self
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
Carl von Clausewitz
Surprise
Speed
Backbone
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
Dark
Better
Doing
Powerful
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
People
Information
Data
Trash
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
Relationship
Truth
Better
Performance
Governments want to control information. To do this, they have elaborate systems for promoting themselves via propaganda departments and for ensuring confidentiality with official-secrets laws. There are good reasons for these: people need information, and national security deserves secrecy.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Good
People
Control
Information
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
Umberto Eco
Love
Great
World
Writing
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
Georg Simmel
Speak
Being
Stadium
Transition
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
Georg Simmel
Moment
Tension
Which
Revelation
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
Georg Simmel
Relationship
Will
Two
Involved
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
Georg Simmel
Men
Time
Gossip
Temptation
Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.
Laura Schlessinger
Privacy
Difference
Well
Oh
The United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy and transparency.
Rudy Giuliani
Paradise
Transparency
China
Russia
When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed.
Joyce Carol Oates
Life
Happiness
Family
Me
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
I Am
Society
Government
Purpose
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