#secrecy

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#secrecy #speed #surprise

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

— Georg Simmel

#between #secrecy #speak #stadium #thus

They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they get out to the floor. And it's hard to lick em at that stage. They're a closed corporation. When they stick together, you can't lick em on the floor. ↗

— John William McCormack

#anything #closed #corporation #find #floor

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America. ↗

— George McGovern

#come #deception #high #high places #home

The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#english #especially #novel #personal #requires

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children. ↗

— Maria Monk

#attempt #children #convent #far #i

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#authentic #been #belief #come #could

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#freedom #secrecy #tyrants

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#lies #like #much #nothing #others

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

#absolutely #am #card #contradiction #free