Secrecy Quotes - Page 15

• A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for want of two essential properties, secrecy and dispatch.

  John Adams

  Exercise, Two, Essentials

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.87, Hackett Publishing

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• Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Mind, Body

  Francis Bacon (1859). “Essays, moral, economical and political. With a memoir of the author”, p.6

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• I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In apartheid South Africa he was public enemy number one. Shrouded in secrecy, myth and rumour, the media called him 'The Black Pimpernel'.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Years, Names, Numbers

  Source: anniepaul.net

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• There is more interest in what is occurring in technology companies that impact news. Such companies don't have the same sense of transparency about what they do. They have a tradition of secrecy about products, mores and decision-making that goes along with Silicon Valley and intellectual property and technology. You cannot step onto the grounds of Google without signing a Non-Disclosure Agreement. That industrial secrecy mentality exists along with a theoretical sensibility about transparency on the Web, which is different than transparency inside companies that profit from the Web.

  Tom Rosenstiel

  Technology, Google, Intellectual

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• Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Real, Interesting, Persons

  "A Chekhov lexicon" by William Boyd, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2004.

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