Jamie Johnson

The secrecy surrounding wealth and the anxiety of talking about money is absurd. If you are rich and you live well and you spend money and it is an essential part of your lifestyle, then you shouldn't be ashamed of talking about it. You shouldn't be ashamed of it. And I think you should accept it and be honest and open about it.

American Director

Abraham Verghese

As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.

Ethiopian Author

Nathan Myhrvold

I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there's tremendous traditions; there's secrecy.

American Businessman

Jan Schakowsky

While trade agreements are negotiated in secrecy, behind-closed doors, we have learned enough from leaks to know that the result of passing TPA to 'fast track' these trade agreements would affect everything from food safety to environmental protection to consumer financial protections.

American Politician

Ron Paul

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

Trevor Paglen

If secrecy is made out of the same stuff that the rest of the world is made out of, then it's fundamentally visible, which means that secrecy can only fail in the first instance, in the sense that you cannot make something disappear.

American Artist

Umberto Eco

I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.

Italian Novelist

Simon Sebag Montefiore

I see the world as an adventure thriller and a voyage of discovery. To me, all lives are lives of mystery and secrecy, and that's what I write about.

British Historian

Trace Lysette

It's important to be transparent, to remove secrecy from issues of equality.

American Actress

Ian Hacking

Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

Canadian Philosopher

Secrecy implies actions or decisions are hidden from public view, often for privacy or security.

Hidden Processes

While 'secrecy' can suggest something mysterious or illicit, it's not always negative.

Not Suspicious

In politics, secrecy may relate to sensitive issues of national security or diplomacy.

Matters of State

Secrecy can refer to the choice of keeping one’s personal matters undisclosed.

Personal Privacy

Some cultures value secrecy more highly, especially regarding family or personal issues.

Cultural Sensitivity

Secrecy in legal terms involves protecting sensitive information by law.

Legal Protection

In business, secrecy is critical for protecting intellectual property and trade secrets.

Business Confidential

 they'd rather not have the public know about. And these people go to great lengths to hide any links between their names and the companies they own. The life of an anonymous company usually begins in what's known as a secrecy jurisdiction, a place whose laws allow new companies to be registered

How exposing anonymous...

 So I am not terribly impressed by those who know in advance what will or will not happen. I think one century ago, many people would have said that progressive income taxation would never happen and then it happened. And even five years ago, many people would have said that bank secrecy

Thomas Piketty: New...

 But why would a company even want to discourage salary discussions? Why do some people go along with it, while others revolt against it? It turns out that in addition to the assumed reasons, pay secrecy is actually a way to save a lot of money. You see, keeping salaries secret

Why you should know how...

 across all different countries, and particularly centered around the heart of power, around public officials who were embezzling the public's money for their own personal enrichment, and allowed to do that because of official secrecy.

Heather Brooke: My...

 talking about how individuals can use offshore secrecy to hide and disguise their assets -- something we have been talking about and exposing for a decade. Now, I think a lot of people find this entire world baffling and confusing,

The Panama Papers...

 ever seen they used to tear down the forests kick people off their land and rip off millions of us around the world now just to be clear I'm not fancy business far from it but I am against the practice of secrecy that allows

Exposing abuse of...

 and we weren't doing drugs. Now my box, my card, my man box card, was immediately in jeopardy. Two One, I never had sex. We don't talk about that as men. You only tell your dearest, closest friend, sworn to secrecy for life,

A call to men PIPE Tony...

 That's because you care about your privacy, like every human being. So, our world has changed fast. And today, there is understandably a lot of confusion about what privacy is and why it matters. Privacy is not secrecy.

What you need to know...

 And I said that I thought communication within the marriage might be triggering some of their problems. But I was also struck by the burdensome nature of such mutual secrecy. Depression is so exhausting.

Depression, the secret...

 he was a code talker during the war I asked him why he hadn't told me earlier he said I was sworn to secrecy and that's why he never said a word