Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Secrecy is the foundation of politics.
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.
We don't need secrecy.
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
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.
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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.