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During my senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can't say anything more. — George W. Bush

A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between. — Karen White

The Jesuits…are a secret society – a sort of Masonic order – with superadded features of revolting odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous. — Samuel Morse

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. — John F. Kennedy

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole. — Adam Weishaupt

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government. — Spiro T. Agnew

There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it. — Woodrow Wilson

Rae Chorze Fwaz was a mystery school. A mystery school is an occult order comprised of people who study meditation, enlightenment and psychic and occult arts. — Frederick Lenz

Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords. — Pablo Neruda

The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them. — Peter Redgrove

A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one. — Heraclitus

You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends. — Robert Anton Wilson

That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just succeeded in dismembering Christian unity. — Eliphas Levi

The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control. — Millard Fillmore

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati. — Carroll Quigley

Short Secret Society Quotes

  • Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity. — Marshall McLuhan
  • Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. — Elbert Hubbard
  • Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. — Benjamin Franklin
  • More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations. — John Barth
Secret society quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

Secret Is Secret Quotes

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. — Nikola Tesla

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. — Socrates

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. — Colin Powell

Secret society quote The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.

Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets. — Al-Ghazali

The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people. — Smith Wigglesworth

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. — Dick Gregory

Secret society quote You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is
You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

The secret is to believe in your dreams; in your potential that you can be like your star, keep searching, keep believing and don’t lose faith in yourself. — Neymar

The Secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. — Socrates

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one. — Mark Twain

Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence." — Rumi

Secret Mission Quotes

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert Morrison landed in China to the martyrdom of John and Betty Stam, prayer has been the source of power and the secret of spiritual triumph. — Samuel Marinus Zwemer

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo. — Zoe Saldana

It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth. — Paul Klee

Secret society quote You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

Part of your mission in life then must be to share your gifts with as many people as possible. That means being willing to play big. — T. Harv Eker

With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to retract his statement about his secret Christmas mission to Cambodia, despite it having allegedly been 'seared, seared' into his memory. — Glenn Reynolds

Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission. — Zack Snyder

Secret society quote Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say
Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say

I consider each of my dollars to be investment "soldiers," and their mission is "freedom." — T. Harv Eker

Despite what I said about staying the way we were, I changed. I, who have always believed in speaking my mind and made it my mission to uncover the truth, have found myself keeping secrets. Sometimes life is more complicated than the simple rules we make for it. — Elizabeth Chandler

Secret Society Words Quotes

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. — John F. Kennedy

Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins. — Andre Breton

The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society. — John F. Kennedy

Secret society quote We all carry these things inside that no one can see. They hold us down like anchors and they drown
We all carry these things inside that no one can see. They hold us down like anchors and they drown us out at sea.

A lady once expressed herself in society - the very words show that they were uttered with fervour and under the pressure of a great many secret emotions: "Yes, a woman must be pretty if she is to please the men. A man is much better off. As long as he has five straight limbs, he needs no more!" — Sigmund Freud

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More Secret Society Quotes

Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible. — Cecil Rhodes

Satan is around y'all. Devil on your shoulder. All these niggas is corn, sworn in secret societies, devils with no horn. — Jadakiss

Secret society quote Dont look for society to give you permission to be yourself.
Dont look for society to give you permission to be yourself.

[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men. — Woodrow Wilson

There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach - it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end. — William Howard Taft

We form an association of brothers in all points of the globe ... yet there is one unseen that can hardly be felt, yet it weighs on us. Whence comes it? Where is it? No one knows ... or at least no one tells. This association is secret even to us the veterans of the Secret Societies. — Giuseppe Mazzini

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization. — W. E. B. Du Bois

How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets. — Thomas Moore

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. — John F. Kennedy

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. — Benjamin Disraeli

The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight. — John F. Kennedy

No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition and both are necessary. — John F. Kennedy

Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations and observe his natural ways of acting. A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within himself the secret of human nature. — Maria Montessori

Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes. — Tom Robbins

Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface. — A. E. Waite

In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them. — Bertrand Russell

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts. — Bernard Tschumi

The secret of the superiority of state over private education lies in the fact that in the former the teacher is responsible to society ... [T]he result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils. — Lester Frank Ward

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive. — John F. Kennedy

Secret Societies have existed among all peoples, savage and civilized, since the beginning of recorded history... It is beyond question that the secret societies of all ages have exercised a considerable degree of political influence. — Manly Hall

It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads. — Benjamin Disraeli

FACT: The Priory of Sion - a European secret society founded in 1099 - is a real organization. In 1975 Paris's Bibliothque Nationale discovered parchments known as Les Dossiers Secrets, identifying numerous members of the Priory of Sion, including Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Leonardo da Vinci. — Dan Brown

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause. — Rebecca West

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world. — Woodrow Wilson

Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic. — John Quincy Adams

Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopher’s stone or the grand panacea: and the discovery would be equally useless, or rather pernicious to mankind. The most holy band of society is friendship. — Mary Wollstonecraft

One of the most important secret societies of the 20th century is called the Round Table. It is based in Britain with branches across the world. It is the Round Table that ultimately orchestrates the network of the Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. — David Icke

The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus. — Oswald Chambers

I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. — Woodrow Wilson

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society — Nicolas Chamfort

In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies. — Alexis de Tocqueville

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members. — Georg Simmel

What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret. — Michel Foucault

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents. — Edmund Leach

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt. — Michael Tsarion

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent. — John F. Kennedy

The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn. — Honore de Balzac

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity. — John Jay Chapman

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