Top Secrecy Quotes
The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.
George P. Shultz
Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.
Ric Ocasek
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
Karl Von Clausewitz
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.
Sissela Bok
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
Fritz Sauckel 
Donna Tartt 
Harry Houdini 
Niels Bohr 
Bill Moyers 
M. Night Shyamalan 
John le Carre 
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The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.
George P. Shultz 
62% of people like this quote
Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.
Ric Ocasek
61% of people like this quote
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
Karl Von Clausewitz
59% of people like this quote
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.
Sissela Bok
57% of people like this quote
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
55% of people like this quote
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
55% of people like this quote
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Niels Bohr
54% of people like this quote
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
54% of people like this quote
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
Duc De Richelieu
52% of people like this quote
Popular Secrecy Authors
Friedrich NietzscheThomas CarlyleJohn F. KennedyElia KazanJohn le CarreRon PaulDonna TarttKate AdieFritz SauckelGeorg SimmelKarl Von ClausewitzMaria MonkJeremy TaylorNiels BohrGilbert Parker
Bill MoyersCarroll QuigleyBob SchafferJeremy BenthamHarry HoudiniRic OcasekEdward TellerHenry BessemerM. Night ShyamalanHarrison SalisburyCardinal RichelieuGeorge P. ShultzSissela BokJohn William McCormackJane Pauley
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