Secrecy Quotes - Page 11

• 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

  Doors, Luxury, Comfort

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• From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

  George McGovern

  Military, Home, America

  George McGovern (2004). “The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  Ian Mcewan

  Would Be, Social, Ends

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• 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

  Law, Data, People

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• 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

  Self, Mind, Belief

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• Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of humanactions.... Where that desire is wanting, we are apt to be indifferent, listless, indolent, and inert.... I will own to you, under the secrecy of confession, that my vanity has very often made me take great pains to make many a woman in love with me, if I could, for whose person I would not have given a pinch of snuff.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Pain, Vanity, Names

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• People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when they are in a relationship? Shame, guilt, ignorance, reservation, prudishness, all kinds of different cultural systems and social stereotypes shroud sexuality in secrecy and in silence. And there's the romantic notion. "If I say in the beginning, that I am missing something, you are instantly going to think that means you are not enough."

  Esther Perel

  Growing Up, Ignorance, Mean

  "The Deeper Reasons Why People Have Affairs". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. October 20, 2017.

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• For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure the country is guided by some hidden force; an organization working in secrecy, powerful enough to dispose of the Kennedys and of anyone else who gets in its way.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Powerful, Usa

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 169, 1991.

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• I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there's tremendous traditions; there's secrecy.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Team, Interesting, People

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• I think it became blurry because I grew up in a very private family. I mixed privacy and secrecy up somewhere along the line. Everything became a secret, and I thought that was how you should live. Lying about everything. The mask I put on as a kid to survive was the funny lady. Then the funny person all of a sudden became harder to do without substances. Substances let me keep the mask on longer. Until it doesn't work anymore and you're just a mess.

  Kristen Johnston

  Lying, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Secrecy destroys accountability.

  Ralph Nader

  Accountability, Political

  Ralph Nader (2014). “Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State”, p.65, Nation Books

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• The nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or both. Usually, it's all done in secrecy, or if not, they try to make it seem as if they're doing something other than what they are.

  Robert Jordan

  Hurt, Thinking, House

  Robert Jordan (2009). “The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.306, Macmillan

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• Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Trust, Tyranny

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.325, Penguin

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• We don't need secrecy.

  Jimmy Wales

  Needs

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

  Jane Pauley

  Diagnosis, Mental Illness, Shame

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• Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

  Cara Buono

  Men, Mad, Sopranos

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

  R. D. Laing

  Veils, Truth Is

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• Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time..."

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Rain, Thinking, Wind

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• There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Dodge, Vices, Doe

  c.1910 Quoted in Alleyne Ireland An Adventure with a Genius, ch.4.

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• She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Secret, Sphinx

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Complete Short Stories: The Model Millionaire + The Canterville Ghost + The Happy Prince + The Star-Child + The Fisherman And His Soul + The Selfish Giant + The Nightingale And The Rose + The Sphinx Without A Secret + many more...”, p.203, e-artnow

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• In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Escaping, Order, Silence

  Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.8, Basic Books

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• From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.

  Wendell Berry

  Art, War, Ambition

  Wendell Berry (2009). “The Mad Farmer Poems”, p.17, Counterpoint Press

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• Secrecy begets tyranny.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Political, Tyranny, Begets

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.32, Penguin

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• 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

  Breathing Space, Giving, Childhood

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• [T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate the pitiful helplessness of the inarticulate individual, who functions at the polls as the smallest indivisible arithmetical (and not always algebraic) unit. He acts in total anonymity, secrecy and legal irresponsibility.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Men, Voting, Principles

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