George Bernard Shaw Quotes
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish Nobel Laureate in Literature, Mrs. Warren's Profession
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CREEP in the Nixon Campaign
The main reason that the English or American Freedom of Information Act is not used so much by individuals is that the executive agencies make the process of obtaining documents very difficult and then when the government stonewalls, the requestor has to spend a great deal of time and often engage an attorney. The result is that few individuals can spend the time or money and the field consists mostly of media and non profit organizations which have staff and resources.
Often quoted by historians and victims of state murders and wartime atrocities.
Privacy was a much more important value then and for Smith and most contemporaries there should be NO compromising records kept at all. Keeping records secret was itself an unacceptable compromise.
For many in Western Judeo Christian cultures, secrecy per se is unsavory at best. This has included secret societies and government secrets.
See {594396} for his going a step further and advocating lying in the interest of the nation. Note that he does not consider the simple alternative of telling the voters and then fixing the problem.
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
