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Tag Name "Secrecy" (185)

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Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.
Guy Debord
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To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may be a matter for secrecy, but whatever we do with the utmost truthfulness and integrity, by virtue of its pureness, must be transparent as light.
Henry David Thoreau
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A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.
D. H. Lawrence
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To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.
Benjamin Franklin
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The secret known to two is no longer a secret.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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The third factor is the natural predisposition of bureaucracies, both governmental and private, to exploit secrecy to whatever degree they are licensed to do so, and in this administration they're given virtually carte blanche.
Ted Gup
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Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
Harry S. Truman
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Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.
Rowan Williams
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Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
Daniel Schorr
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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
Francis Bacon
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Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
Don DeLillo
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
Nicolas Chamfort
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We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process of government appointments.
Kim Campbell
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Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
Charles Caleb Colton
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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
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While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually know the emotional costs of keeping a secret until the truth is disclosed. Usually, secrecy involves lying. And lying is always the setting for potential betrayal and violation of trust.
Bell Hooks
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The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
Bill Vaughan
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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world. And if you do the latter, you're not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
Irvin D. Yalom
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O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.
Sun Tzu
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Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.
Ramsey Clark
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Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.
Reince Priebus
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The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Patrick Henry
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