I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
- M. Night Shyamalan(in her last interview in the Los Angeles Examiner) As long as my money held out I could get drugs. I was afraid to tell my mother, my best friends. My only desire was to get drugs and take them in secrecy. If only I could get on my knees before the police or before a judge and beg them to make stiffer laws so that men will refuse to take any dirty dollars from the murderers who sell this poison and who escape punishment when caught by buying their way out.
- Alma RubensSir Beatle is inviting 300 people. They are all sworn to secrecy, lest this get in the papers.
- Cindy AdamsWhatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
- Elia KazanSecrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don`t let anyone know it.
- Ric OcasekBut 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 HoudiniThe most unfortunate thing about the system is the secrecy of the board.
- Kirby DickI 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 PaulIt is clear that the manner in which state money was directed is problematic for its secrecy, its lack of accountability and its end run around the legislative process,
- Roy Cooperthe manner in which state money was directed is problematic for its secrecy, its lack of accountability and its end run around the legislative process.
- Roy CooperWhy has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious.
- Wangari MaathaiThe time for its secrecy is past. It`s time for it to come into the light.
- Nick CookThe time for its secrecy is past,
- Nick CookSecrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
- Bill MoyersThe better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
- Kate AdieWe plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process of government appointments.
- Kim CampbellThere 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.
- Alaa Abdel FattahSecrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
- Alex KoganSecrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
- Alex KoganEvery relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
- Alex KoganSecrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
- Alex KoganIn 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.
- Alex RozanskiIn 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.
- Alexander RahrThe backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Allen JacksonThe best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness
- Niels BohrOn the secrecy behind his nightly monologue: "It`s always been a ritual with me. I don`t show it to Freddie (executive producer Frederick De Cordova) or Ed (sidekick Ed McMahon) or anybody. If you don`t show it to anybody, then you get fresh reactions."
- Johnny Carson