Best 310 quotes in «privacy quotes» category

In a democracy, the public should be asked how much security and how much privacy they want for themselves.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.

I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety.

I sigh inside, so exhausted by these ugly questions, but when did a monster ever deserve its privacy?

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place

In fact, we have never had more invasions of privacy than we have now [with Barack Obama].

It has been more than 60 years since the constitution was put in place. There are provisions in the constitution that no longer suit the times. Since the constitution was promulgated, we've seen the emergence of new values, such as privacy, the environment and so on, which need to be incorporated.

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.

It is my conviction that movie stars are not entitled to any rights of privacy.

It certainly woke me up to how vulnerable we all are. I think I was much more cavalier about it before I started working on the movie [Edward Snowden], and then the more I read the documents themselves and saw just how sweeping and indiscriminate the intrusions into our privacy have been, it made me more aware.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

It makes me feel like working non-stop: at least, on sets, the level of security gives me a bit of privacy. It's a relief.

It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

it’s awful. No privacy, no secrets. Everything you’re ashamed of, laid out for everyone to see.

It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

Maybe that's the way I'm private - I respect the privacy of "my" characters? Anyway, we're getting close to the whole "relatability" and "likability" thing.

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.

Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.

Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.

One good thing about punctuality is that it's a sure way to help you enjoy a few minutes of privacy.

Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.

People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?

Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people seek to have control over a social situation by managing impressions, information flows, and context.

Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.

Privacy is dead. Reputations are dying.

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

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.

Most Americans want a sense of privacy. A lot of us don't realize how much of our privacy we're exposing by the internet.

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

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

Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy

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.

Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.

The actual breakthrough in the privacy of the studio, when one dares to apply paint in a new manner, is a solitary thrill, dependent upon no one else.

Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system.

The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.