#secrecy

Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#change #closed #disingenuous #doors #either

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

— Ric Ocasek

#efficiency #enemy #know #secrecy

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#photography #secrecy #secrets #art

Secrecy is an idea which presumes men can't read minds to each other. ↗

— Toba Beta

#planted #secrecy #men

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

#better #between #contemptuous #demonstrated #digest

From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#aura #been #beginning #closeted #continues

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

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#freedom #secrecy #tyrants