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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.

Gilbert Parker

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Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.

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

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they get out to the floor. And it's hard to lick em at that stage. They're a closed corporation. When they stick together, you can't lick em on the floor.

John William McCormack

Work

Information

Secrecy

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

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.

Harry Houdini

Honor

Secrecy

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

Karl Von Clausewitz

Secrecy

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

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

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

Sissela Bok

Deception

Secrecy

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.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.