Zitat des Tages über Geheimhaltung / Secrecy:
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
The building I most admire is the Doges Palace in Venice, both by day and by night. Looking at it from the lagoon, it resembles a floating kilim carpet. I love all the bridges which connect houses, people, gardens and palaces. I also love moats to isolate yourself. A ha-ha for secrecy, as in every English country garden.
While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Writers are always writing about infidelity. It's so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you're also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it's just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it will ever go out of fashion.
Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama's early emphasis on openness in government seems almost inevitable.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.
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.
The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films.
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool 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, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues.
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.
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
Being in a Marvel film is the pinnacle of secrecy training.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.
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.
Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.
It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.
Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.
A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
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.
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.
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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 first essential in affairs of the State.