Best 310 quotes in «privacy quotes» category

[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.

I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.

I believe in a zone of privacy.

I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

I am not a fan of Facebook or Twitter. They both allow too much information to be available and they make privacy a thing of the past.

I am not sure precisely why we need to have privacy, but everyone knows for sure that we need to relax and not have to put on our social, outwardly looking face all of the time.

I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.

If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

I like the privacy of my life and I protect it quite vigilantly.

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

If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

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.

I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

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

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

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 and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

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.

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

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

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