Privacy Quotes

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

We are living in a generation where people ‘in love’ are free to touch each other’s private parts bu...

...because it is the privilige and the curse of midnight's children to be both masters and victims o...

I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small indivi...

Either a municipal bog is a private place or it isn't. If it is a private place in which to shit, ho...

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control. We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our ...

But secluding my experience during that early period was both cowardly and wise. Some things are too...

If you were writing a book to be published, you might be restrained by the fear that your wild imagi...

The sleeper turns his back on everyone.

Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex.

I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and i...

I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it ne...

It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary...

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is natur...

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is natur...

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is natur...

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is natur...

I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, t...

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; ...

Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the f...

These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our ...

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all fre

When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about pro...

Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romant...

In any case, I hadn’t gone into the subject of dorm living too deeply with him, not because I hesita...

Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday mornin...

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty n...

Privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some ...

For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criti...

Even though we don't know which companies the NSA has compromised – or by what means – knowing that ...

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for m...

Clothes falling away signals a situation that I'll likely avoid putting into words. If clothes don't...

[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre c...

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of ...

Secrets,” Kohler finally said, “are a luxury we can no longer afford.

When privacy is criminalized, only criminals will have privacy.

It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line ...

He handed Mae a piece of paper, on which he'd written, in crude all capitals, a list of assertions u...

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the ...

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to k...

Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want...

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the p...

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no differ...

Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when l...

The more I'm let alone and not worried the better I can function.

The characters who go to make up my stories and novels are not portraits. Characters I invent along ...

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two date...

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one ...

Technology would have long ago made privacy impossible, except that this had only made it more preci...

England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicte...

I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not wa...

I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don't like showing their passports. It's beco...

Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant sto...

I’ve been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of ...

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, ...

The place suggested a convent with the modern improvements—an asylum in which privacy, though unbrok...

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasio...

As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his pri...

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments,...

Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the ri...

There is a common superstition that “self-respect” is a kind of charm against snakes, something that...

There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.

Solitude sometimes is best society.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your windo...

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia. This development has not ...

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point w...

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin ...

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for i...

Mr. de Pinto, the dog who protects sheep quickly learns how to direct them, and it becomes a habit. ...

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one ...

Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting. There is, in fact, nothing. And so we exchan...

'And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, som...

Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soi...

And do you know the story about Haydn’s head? They cut it away from the still-warm cadaver so some i...

Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know a...

No one cares about the artist Kafka, who troubles us with his puzzling aesthetic, because we'd rathe...

For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves not others, was possible only away from the ...

When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as th...

Marriage is the ultimate solitude with minimal privacy.

I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or thir...