Official Secrets Acts

Famous quotes containing the words official, secrets and/or acts:

“We were that generation called “silent,” but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period’s official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man’s fate.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1935)

“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“This is that which we call Character,—a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)