secrecy

i. sır tutma, gizlilik, esrarengizlik

- Why weren't we told about the kidnapping?
- Secrecy was essential. We couldn't risk any interference.

- Kaçırma olayından niye bize bahsedilmedi?
- Gizlilik çok önemliydi. Herhangi bir müdahaleyi göze alamazdık.

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

It is possible that I might have placed them upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given.

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
Carroll Quigley

If I may give an opinion, remarked the strange gentleman, we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business already.

Then I must begin, said he, by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at the end of that time the matter will be of no importance.

You can understand, said Holmes suavely, that I extend to the affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to you in yours.

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
M. Night Shyamalan

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.
Bob Schaffer

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
Sissela Bok

The parents of Madeleine McCann allege that a former detective who has written a book on the case broke secrecy laws.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
Kate Adie

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly.
Fritz Sauckel

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
Georg Simmel

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.
Gilbert Parker

I have a professional commission for you, but absolute secrecy is quite essential-absolute secrecy, you understand, and of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than from one who lives in the bosom of his family.'

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
John le Carre

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.
Henry Bessemer

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.
Ron Paul

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