People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets?
The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.
Secrecy is the foundation of politics.
People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
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.
A secret is a weapon and a friend.
The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards.
Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.