Secrecy

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
Edward Teller
Addiction
Secrecy
Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.
Donna Tartt
Love
Children
Houses
Secrecy
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
Georg Simmel
Secrecy
Will
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
Georg Simmel
Secrecy
Tension
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
Georg Simmel
Being
Secrecy
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
Time
Men
Confession
Gossip
Secrecy
Temptation
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
M. Night Shyamalan
Secrecy
The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.
George P. Shultz
Secrecy
Will
There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.
Bob Schaffer
Bribery
Secrecy
At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly.
Fritz Sauckel
Life
Time
Circumstances
Party
Secrecy
Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.
Harrison Salisbury
Life
Secrecy
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
Cardinal Richelieu
First
Secrecy
State
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
Carroll Quigley
Power
Knowledge
Evil
Inflation
Persistence
Public
Secrecy
A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
Jane Pauley
Being
Burden
Secrecy
Shame
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
Government
Society
Purpose
Contradiction
Privacy
Secrecy