Veil of Secrecy Quotes

To cover with the veil of secrecy the common routine of business is an abomination in the eyes of every intelligent man and every friend to his country.

Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.

The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

There is a veil of secrecy that is descending around the administration which I think is unseemly

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters.

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

Lawyers, judges, doctors, shrinks, accountants, investigators and, not least, journalists could not do the most basic tasks without a veil of secrecy. Why shouldn't the same be true of those professionals who happen to be government officials?

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

The veil of secrecy must be lifted and the attempted dumbing down of the Australian people by restricting their right to know must be fought.

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

Oh yes, I have learned much from Tremorlor, and so assume a like strategy. Silence, a faint mocking smile suggesting I know more than I do, an air of mystery, yes, and fell knowledge. None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions!

It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

No one has a human right to hide from justice behind a veil.