A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
Jane Pauley

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

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

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.
Donna Tartt

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
Georg Simmel

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

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

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

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.
Henry Bessemer

Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.
Harrison Salisbury

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

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Jeremy Taylor

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

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

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
Cardinal Richelieu

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
Duc De Richelieu

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
Bill Moyers

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
Georg Simmel

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

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