secrecy quotes

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.

I don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

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

I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

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.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

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

I never talk about my next project.