Best 310 quotes in «privacy quotes» category

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

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 right to privacy... is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

The social media not only become new platforms for the invasion of privacy, but further legitimate a culture in which monitoring functions are viewed as benign while the state-sponsored society of hyper-fear increasingly defines everyone as either a snitch or a terrorist.

The trouble with having a body is that people know it's where you hang out and you don't get any privacy.

The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children.

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

This may be invading her privacy but I was Death, dammit. I should get some privileges

To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about.

When I worry about privacy I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three arms holding cell phones with cameras in them or video records capturing the event ready to go on the nightly news, if necessary. And I think that does change a lot our sense of what is going on in our neighborhoods.

When the social network doesn't find it convenient to have privacy, we say, "Okay, social network, you don't want privacy, maybe we won't have it either." But we did this without having the conversation.

You already have zero privacy - get over it.

You don't owe anybody the present other than yourself. Take time for you. Respect yourself and your privacy. Set boundaries.

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.