Confidentiality Quotes

• In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Jobs, Communication

  Presser on Wikileaks Release of Confidential Documents, delivered 29 November 2010, Treaty Room, Washington, D.C.

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• Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.

  Billy Graham

  Essence, Being Trusted, Trusted

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.95, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Loyalty, Literature, Faithfulness

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• In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

  Gijs de Vries

  Aquariums, Essentials, Information

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• Confidentiality and transparency are not mutually exclusive, but rather two sides of the same coin.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Two Sides, Coins, Transparency

  "SPIEGEL Interview with German Interior Minister: 'WikiLeaks Is Annoying, But Not a Threat'". Interview with Holger Stark and Marcel Rosenbach, www.spiegel.de. December 20, 2010.

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• Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Social Values, Ancient, Wells

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• There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Loss, People, Secret

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.180, U of Nebraska Press

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• Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confidentiality protects much that is not in fact secret, personal secrets lie at its core. The innermost, the vulnerable, often the shameful: these aspects of self-disclosure help explain why one name for professional confidentiality has been "the professional secret." Such secrecy is sometimes mistakenly confused with privacy; yet it can concern many matters in no way private, but that someone wishes to keep from the knowledge of third parties.

  Sissela Bok

  Confused, Lying, Party

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.119, Vintage

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• If you are a member of a small group or class, I urge you to make a group covenant that includes the nine characteristics of biblical fellowship: We will share our true feelings (authenticity), forgive each other (mercy), speak the truth in love (honesty), admit our weaknesses (humility), respect our differences (courtesy), not gossip (confidentiality), and make group a priority (frequency).

  Rick Warren

  Honesty, Humility, Biblical

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• If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Stupid, Office, President

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.694, Best Books on

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• If people can't abide by the confidentiality of the cabinet room, then they should leave the cabinet.

  Ian Macfarlane

  People, Rooms, Cabinets

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

  Bob Woodward

  Government, Ties, Secret

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Becoming The Best, Locks, Agendas

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• Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Trust, Inspire, Doubt

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• I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.

  Cheryl Hines

  Agreement, Assistants

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• The team you belong to must come ahead of the team you lead: this is putting team results (e.g., organizational needs) ahead of individual agendas (e.g., the team or division you lead, your ego, your need for recognition, your career development, etc.) Confidentiality is respected downward more than it is respected upward. Organizational alignment is a direct result of this hierarchy (if it were the other way around, organizational alignment would be very difficult to achieve).

  Patrick Lencioni

  Team, Careers, Ego

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• Confidentiality is the nature of all governments. Of course you may say, the government will always want to communicate the good news; things which bring satisfaction, cheer, help or pleasure to voters. And of course, you are right, governments are not masochists by nature.

  Bernard Ingham

  Cheer, Government, Want

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• The confidentiality of the judicial process would not matter greatly to an understanding and evaluation of the legal system if the consequences of judicial behavior could be readily determined. If you can determine the ripeness of a cantaloupe by squeezing or smelling it, you don't have to worry about the produce clerk's mental processes.

  Richard Posner

  Worry, Understanding, Clerks

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