Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.
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.
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.
A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.