143 Quotes About Secrecy

A culture of secrecy is like the bad stench created by cat pee—it is very difficult to get rid of.

No matter how secret a particular satellite was, it had to obey the same laws of physics as the rest of the solar system.

No one is worse at keeping secrets than the secret services

This was to be expected from a man who, one of his classmates said, lived by three rules, 'Never tell what you've done, what you are doing, or what you're going to do.' 251

Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's there.

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

A secret that has been buried too long, eating a hole in me, worms its way to the surface, like a swimmer who can't hold his breath any longer.

Nobody in the government is talking. They say it’s a case of national security.

They are afraid. They would, today, keep secret a thousand things that, yesterday, they would have told one another freely. Freedom. Where is it now? We are driving it into limbo—their kind. To limbo.