We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
[Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, February 26, 1962]
Tags: democracy america censorship freedom-of-thought marketplace-of-ideas media news openness secrecy truthfulness values
A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.
Diane ArbusTags: art photography secrets secrecy
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mahatma GandhiTags: truth honesty justice secrecy truth-telling transparency
You should not honor men more than truth.
PlatoTags: truth honesty secrecy honor
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Alexander PopeIt's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.
Abraham LincolnTags: secrecy
I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.
Daniel SchorrTags: politics secrecy government disclosure open-government
I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
Oscar WildeTags: secrecy
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.
Judith Lewis HermanTags: lying denial secrecy crazy credibility survivors insane hysterical rape-survivor abusers perpetrators sexual-abuse survivor abuse abuse-survivors abuser attack-on-character attacking-people backlash break-the-silence child-sexual-abuse child-sexual-abuse-survivor false-memories false-memory-myth false-memory-syndrome-campaign healing-from-abuse incest just-tell lack-of-accountability perpetrator pschological-abuse rape-culture rape-myths sexual-assault sexual-violence unstable victimized victimizing
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
Gabriel García MárquezTags: life secrecy privacy public-image
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