Best 310 quotes in «privacy quotes» category

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

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.

What's worse than being ignored: not being ignored.

When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls!

When privacy is criminalized, only criminals will have privacy.

When to others it's not lying. It's privacy.

When you give up your privacy, you give up your power.

When you fake emotion for a living, when you make your money providing fantasies for other people, tuning into their worlds and indulging them, you don’t invite someone into your world very easily.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents.

Where the truth remains hidden from the outside, the inside imprisons the hidden.

Where is privacy, if not in the mind?

Why am I not posting anything on social media? Well, it's not because I have something to hide, it's because I have nothing that I want you to see.

Why should a little corner of the garden be so important to a woman like Susanna? A woman with a palatial home, and the finest garments. Because imagine it – if you live as she does, surrounded by endless people and their expectations, ones you cannot possibly live up to, you do not even want to live up to – that refuge might be the only place you are safe.

Without privacy, civilized life could not exist.

Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting. There is, in fact, nothing. And so we exchange privacy for intimacy.

Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write.

You already have zero privacy. Get over it! --Scott McNealy CEO Sun Microsystems 1999

Yet what best protected privacy wasn't concealment but apathy - the fact that other people simply weren't interested.

Women have become trained to be lone soldiers online, knowing that to send up a signal flare for help is more likely to attract enemies than allies.

Yet the possibility of information storage, beyond what men and governments ever had before, can make available at the touch of a button a man's total history (including remarks put on his record by his kindergarten teacher about his ability and character). And with the computer must be placed the modern scientific technical capability which exists for wholesale monitoring of telephone, cable, Telex and microwave transmissions which carry much of today's spoken and written communications. The combined use of the technical capability of listening in on all these forms of communications with the high-speed computer literally leaves no place to hide and little room for privacy.

But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy.

You can't possibly have a reasonable expectation of privacy at your income level.

You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write

You think knowing things will solve your private little griefs?

A crucial question is how to balance surveillance with privacy and keeping Americans safe.

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.

Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.

Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Every CEO of a social network should be required to use the default privacy settings for all of their accounts on the service.

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.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.

For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to relate to the inside instead of the outside.

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

I believe in a zone of privacy.

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

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.

[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.

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

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

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.

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