While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Deception is everywhere.
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.
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
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.
Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
We don't need secrecy.