#secrecy

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't. ↗

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#anyone #ballot #ballot box #ballots #box

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place ↗

— David Nicholls

#secret

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it; for, however absurd it may be thought to boast an honour by an act which shows that it was conferred without merit, yet most men seem rather inclined to confess the want of virtue than of importance. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#self-importance #trustworthiness #vanity #men

Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#because #competitor #covered #data #dive

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

#end #evasion #good #good end #guilt

Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy. ↗

— Harrison Salisbury

#kremlin #life #secrecy #shrouded #within

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#friendship #secrecy

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

— Diane Arbus

#photography #secrecy #secrets #art

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. ↗