Quotes About Privacy

#1. No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.

Robert Breault

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Stefan Wolf

#3. The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

Fred Wilson

#4. When you're as tall as I am, you have no public privacy. People are constantly coming up and talking to you. Constantly. You have one of two ways to go: you engage with people, or you become really bitter. I choose to engage.

Mark Bradford

#5. My Grandmother says that love is like a bout of diarrhea, it needs neither an invitation nor privacy.

Dora Okeyo

#6. When came the invasion of privacy.That kind of thing turns the newspaper from a friendly organ - not necessarily appeasing everybody - into the enemy. It's one reason why newspapers have suffered circulation falls.

Harold Evans

#7. In any case, I hadn't gone into the subject of dorm living too deeply with him, not because I hesitated to probe his tender spots but because I would have been probing my own. This is called tact, and is reputed to be a virtue.

Alexei Panshin

#8. I don't like to see teenage men wearing very tight jeans. The sight of an erection belongs in the privacy of the bedroom, living room, or kitchen floor.

Ruth Westheimer

#9. Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.

Cara Delevingne

#10. My word, we live and learn, don't we.' And you certainly learn, he added in the privacy of his head.

Terry Pratchett

#11. We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

C.S. Lewis

#12. Legislators need to support privacy to establish consumer confidence.

Marc Rotenberg

#13. Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

Larry Flynt

#14. Two things a wise man never discloses to the public; his money and his women.

Habeeb Akande

#15. In a sense, I'm always hearing music of some sort, whether it's people talking or surface noise or whatever, because there is no privacy. So when I'm by myself, I just kind of like to be and reflect, and I can't do that when I'm listening to music. Because it's someone else's reflections, not mine.

Sarah McLachlan

#16. If you want to observe anger in its entirety, you will have to observe it alone, in the privacy of your room. Then alone can you see it in its fullness, for then there are no limitations. This is why I advise the pillow meditation to certain people, so that they can observe their anger fully.

Rajneesh

#17. I love how everyone thinks it's so quaint and childlike of me to expect a modicum of privacy around here.
-Remy "Thirteen" Hadley

House

#18. I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free.

Tim Winton

#19. I feel more inspired than ever, and think that I will finally achieve what I have long been wishing for: a balance of work and privacy - a harmony.

Kylie Minogue

#20. Sometimes I feel it would be nice to have a bit more privacy.

Zoe Sugg

#21. Is where you live. This is where you sleep. This is where you feel the most privacy in your whole entire life. This is more than just a room.

Colleen Hoover

#22. Sphere of privacy, people.

J.A. Huss

#23. Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

Margaret Cho

#24. But at long last she had some privacy and could go more than ten minutes without someone getting in her business, informing her that everything she did was wrong. As if she didn't already know that.

Alice Hoffman

#25. It is not possible to debate the balance between privacy and security, including the rights and wrongs of intrusive powers, without also understanding the threats.

Theresa May

#26. I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction. It's a new technology, and it's new science that people are becoming familiar with. It's critical for us to do everything we can to enable the privacy level that people want.

Anne Wojcicki

#27. You know the Buddhists believe that sometimes when everything is in turmoil, it's because something wonderful is ready to be born and that thing is distracting you so it can have some privacy during the birthing process.

Pearl Cleage

#28. I don't know how it is up North, of course, but down South there are times when Southern women feel a need for privacy.

John Lee Mahin

#29. I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan ... They need to live their lives as well.

Jeremy Lin

#30. The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.

Asne Seierstad

#31. The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

Jean Paul

#32. The right to privacy has both positive and negative connotations for those who consider themselves part of the natural law tradition.

David Novak

#33. To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

Agnes De Mille

#34. Sometimes people who have their lives played out in public don't feel they have the privacy to continually journey within. I did, and that's why I have longevity.

Shirley Maclaine

#35. Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.

Barton Gellman

#36. She had privacy, and the privilege of walking up and down the same battlements as the sentries.

John Peter Nettl

#37. Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.

Jewel

#38. Haven't you heard of privacy, or were you raised by a tribe of hedonistic Vikings?

Wade Kelly

#39. Invade a man's privacy and then put the burden on him.

Rex Stout

#40. Regarding social media, I really don't understand what appears to be the general population's lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent ... but hey it's them, not me, so whatever.

Axl Rose

#41. It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it.

Dave Eggers

#42. I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

Halle Berry

#43. The public good must come before private interests.

Bryant McGill

#44. Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.

Barton Gellman

#45. The parallels between making love and giving birth are clear, not only in terms of passion and love, but also because we need essentially the same conditions for both experiences: privacy and safety.

Sarah J. Buckley

#46. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

#47. If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.

John Twelve Hawks

#48. There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#49. BRAINSTORMING! Every night after dinner - which is usually something like tuna noodle casserole made with cream-of-wallpaper soup - I escape to the privacy of my bedroom.

James Patterson

#50. Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.

Elizabeth Bowen

#51. I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
(Audrey Hepburn: Many-Sided Charmer, LIFE Magazine, December 7, 1953)

Audrey Hepburn

#52. Having the right to choose determines whether women will find an equal place at life's table, whether children will be truly valued, and whether everyone's personal liberties, privacy, and bodily integrity will be safeguarded against the ideology of the right.

Gloria Feldt

#53. When government gets between my lips and my stomach; I call that invasion of privacy!

Joel Salatin

#54. Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.

Novak Djokovic

#55. About their wedding on a beach of Nantucket, after nearly 50 years together as a couple: "After years of being who we truly were only in the privacy of our homes or with a few friends, we were out in the world, under the sky, no longer pretending." - Norman Sunshine, co-author, Double Life

Norman Sunshine

#56. Privacy IS freedom. Leave us alone!

Ron Paul

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

Bob Dylan

#58. A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy ... so it was, I think, with Dryden.

Walter Raleigh

#59. As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

Shelley Berman

#60. There were two things about the plan that worried Sidra: the breach of Pepper's privacy, and the part that could kill Sidra if she did it wrong. The rest of it was easy. They

Becky Chambers

#61. Being famous very often means sacrificing your privacy and that of others. You have to impose on those close to you a pace and lifestyle that might be a bigger sacrifice for others than it is for you.

Giorgio Armani

#62. This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.

Peter Ustinov

#63. Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.

Jonathan Franzen

#64. People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace and contentment in their lives. Everyone thinks they want to be famous until the paparazzi are in their face, and then they're asking, 'Just give me some privacy.'

Linda Thompson

#65. Clothes falling away signals a situation that I'll likely avoid putting into words. If clothes don't dress it up, don't expect talk to, either.

Carrie Fisher

#66. The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

Aristotle.

#67. But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#68. We have to move away from the entirely ad-supported business because the needs of it means that it has to keep driving into privacy, and that's not good for anyone because we all need to have something about us that is secret from some people.

Andrew Keen

#69. In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

Al Gore

#70. An admirable quality of parenthood is the ability to respect your kid's privacy.

Susane Colasanti

#71. Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy and that of others. Boundaries allow for intimate connection without dissolving or losing one's sense of self.

Amy Bloom

#72. I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#73. When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.

Ruth Rendell

#74. Faria Alam whined about the invasion of her privacy in yet another lucrative interview earlier this week. There is very good money to be made out of whining about the invasion of your privacy.

Rod Liddle

#75. Privacy isn't dead, although it is fashionable for digerati to say so.

Andrew Curry

#76. I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.

Carla Gugino

#77. In effect, fungi do their digesting on the outside. While we tend to process our meals in the privacy of our own insides, fungi prefer to eat out.

L.G. Nicholas

#78. We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.

Andy Rooney

#79. With his shyness and his formality and his tyrannical rages he protected his interior so ferociously that if you loved him, as she did, you learned that you could do him no greater kindness than to respect his privacy.

Jonathan Franzen

#80. I like my privacy. I love being a part of [films], but when I'm not doing stuff, I like to go away. I enjoy being a person, a great deal.

Mike Myers

#81. Nobody disappears completely anymore. The only thing that's disappeared is privacy, which is never coming back. And which is probably a good thing. Why should anything be private? No hiding, no guilt, no shame. Just a completely transparent world.

Paul Russell

#82. Privacy. Someday, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Jodie Foster

#83. Family life is an encroachment on private life.

Karl Kraus

#84. Without privacy, civilized life could not exist.

James Clavell

#85. Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you."

Benjamin Wittes

#86. My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

Susan Sontag

#87. The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called public servants. They're supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we're called private individuals.

Glenn Greenwald

#88. Software design as taught today is terribly incomplete. It talks only about what systems should do. It doesn't address the converse - things systems should not do. They should not crash, hang, lose data, violate privacy, lose money, destroy your company, or kill your customers.

Michael T. Nygard

#89. The so-called 'Employee Free Choice Act' envisions a world where workers would be denied privacy and forced to vote in an atmosphere of intimidation.

Mike Pence

#90. Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.

John Barton

#91. We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.

Ron Lewis

#92. Privacy is rarely lost in one fell swoop. It is usually eroded over time, little bits dissolving almost imperceptibly until we finally begin to notice how much is gone.

Daniel J. Solove

#93. I just love my privacy.

Ann-Margret

#94. For it began to occur to him that one way to become private was to respect another's privacy.

Jane Yolen

#95. Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives.

Michael Eisner

#96. What people dont know about you people create. Imagination is a part of being human. They fill in the unknowns with assumptions and not facts. Every man and woman is a mystery unrevealed.

R.M. Engelhardt

#97. No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.

Wesley Snipes

#98. A gruesome death is a public event. Cops destroy privacy in order to build a concatenation.

S.A. David

#99. She was glad of the rain's privacy and intimacy. Making

D.H. Lawrence

#100. [A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far in excess of what is needed to provide us with the security and protections we all want.

Bill McCollum