Definition of Secrecy

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Secrecy

The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy.

That which is concealed; a secret.

Seclusion; privacy; retirement.

The quality of being secretive; fidelity to a secret; forbearance of disclosure or discovery.

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Secrecy Quotations

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

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.
John F. Kennedy

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

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

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

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
Karl Von Clausewitz

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

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

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.
John Le Carre

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

Secrecy Translations

secrecy in German is Heimlichkeit, Heimlichkeit, Geheimhaltung
secrecy in Spanish is secreto
secrecy in Swedish is hemlighet

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