Quotes: Secrecy

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

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.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.