Privacy is a core condition of being a free person. — Glenn Greenwald
Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect. — Bruce Schneier
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. — Mary Alice Monroe
Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else. — Glenn Greenwald
If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion. — William J. Brennan
What you believe in the privacy of your thoughts and what you do in the privacy of your home or house of worship is your business. What you do in the public realm is our collective business. — Gad Saad
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. — John Perry Barlow
We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers. — Bill McCollum
Your personal life is now known as Facebook’s data. Its CEO’s personal life is now known as mind your own business. — Glenn Greenwald
The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual. — Earl Warren
Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted. — Billy Graham
I try to keep my private life private. — Jake Epstein
Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet. — Gary Kovacs
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
For us, the protection of a person’s digital identity is the overriding priority. — Ursula von der Leyen
A person has to keep something to herself or you're life is just a layout in a magazine. — Grace Kelly
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. — George Bernard Shaw
Morals are private. Decency is public. — Rita Mae Brown
You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore. — Jason Priestley
If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket. — Muddy Waters
I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
Personal Privacy Image Quotes
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Self Privacy Quotes
It’s best to keep your troubles pretty much to yourself. — American Proverbs
It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest; Don't wash your dirty linen in public. — Icelandic Proverbs
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. — Michael Hutchence
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
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
The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize. — Evgeny Morozov
The marketplace is a wondrous institution. It harnesses the self-interest of each of us and puts it to work for the benefit of all. And it does so without intruding upon our desires, our privacy, or our freedom. It is regulation by reality, not by coercion. — Harry Browne
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it. — Alanis Morissette
A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world. — Sven Birkerts
Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the structures of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another. — John Taylor Gatto
In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death does part. — Emma Goldman
Right To Privacy Quotes
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. — Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. — Edward Snowden
Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure. — Ron Paul
Don't confuse my personality with my attitude... My personality is who I am, my attitude depends on who you are...
There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth. — J. K. Rowling
I will always fight for a woman's right to choose and the right to privacy. Reproductive issues are medical related issues and they should be kept private between a woman and her doctor. — Alma Adams
I will no longer allow my obligation as a veteran to remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted by current or former politicians to justify our folly in Iraq, our morally dubious war on terror and our elimination of one's right to privacy. — Harry Leslie Smith
Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.
It's time to recognise the internet as a basic human right. That means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring internet packets are delivered without commercial or political discrimination, and protecting the privacy and freedom of web users regardless of where they live. — Tim Berners-Lee
I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way. — Norman Lamm
The right to privacy... is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. — Harry A. Blackmun
The so-called right to privacy, as it were, is no longer a right inasmuch as it is now a privilege, to be enjoyed until it is torn away at a moment’s notice. — Marshawn Lynch
Privacy Quotes
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. — Benjamin Franklin
Even if you can't sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing. — Nachman of Breslov
When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have made the difference. The reward will go to those who dared to step outside the safety of their privacy in order to expose and rout the prevailing prejudices. — John Shelby Spong
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty. — Esther Dyson
I have made multiple videos telling fans not to come to our house. I feel like a zoo animal. — Jake Paul
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.
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
I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else. — Giorgio Morandi
Faith is something we never discuss at the dinner table in my family, but I do believe in God. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
I'm very, very worried about the invasion of privacy rights that we're seeing not only from the N.S.A. and the government but from corporate America, as well. We're losing our privacy rights. It's a huge issue. — Bernie Sanders
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. — Henry Giroux
This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we’re trying to protect. — Daniel Ellsberg
Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn.
It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself. — Edward Albee
I must admit, the constant invasion of privacy was becoming a real concern. Ive been asked for autographs while Ive been doing laps in the pool and even in the toilet! — Rick Astley
It can feel like an invasion of privacy, involving an employer in a personal matter. — Frank Murphy
Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.
If I see a movie star in the department store buying something, I'll kind of sidle up and see what they're saying, what they look like, how they sound. That's an invasion of privacy. — Tom Lehrer
The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy. — Justin Timberlake
Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion. — Christopher Knight
Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes - but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?) — Robert A. Heinlein
Respect Privacy Quotes
Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances. — Christopher Dodd
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. — Anton Chekhov
Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring. — David Duchovny
Be the one who makes everyone feel like someone!
I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal. — Jim Carrey
I feel like the quality of privacy and respect of people's personal space has been completely disintegrated. You can ask to take the picture. I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. — Busta Rhymes
I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people. — Phil Crane
3 things to keep private: Your love. Your income. Your next move.
Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves. — Jan Brett
Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person's individuality, his privacy. — Osho
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. — Herbert Hoover
You don't owe anybody the present other than yourself. Take time for you. Respect yourself and your privacy. Set boundaries. — Demi Lovato
Personal Space Quotes
I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking. — Saddam Hussein
Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy — Warsan Shire
If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space. — Stephen Hunt
If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay. — John Spence
If you're not living a life on the edge you're taking up too much space! ... You learn the most when you're out of your comfort zone! — Jim Whittaker
By banishing doubt and trusting your intuitive feelings, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through. — Wayne Dyer
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. — Philip Johnson
When a person disappears, everything becomes impregnated with that person's presence. Every single object as well as every space becomes a reminder of absence, as if absence were more important than presence. — Doris Salcedo
Work hard, make people happy, earn money, buy big dreams, visit amazing places, meet people, experience great things, grow as a person, and work again. The cycle repeats. The cycle of making dreams come true. We can even go to space. — Yusaku Maezawa
Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces. — David Adjaye
I Need Privacy Quotes
When you fall in love, you wanna share it with people but you know there are some things that you need to keep to yourself, 'cause privacy makes things last longer, I feel. — Brandy Norwood
I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation I need privacy--to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits. — Virginia Woolf
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. — Ezekiel Emanuel
We do need to rethink privacy. I think we need to fall back on (former Supreme Court Justice) Felix Frankfurter's definition of privacy which is, "Privacy is the right to be left alone." — Paul Saffo
I think what we've had in the past is the government has said, "Well, we need to collect the whole haystack." And the haystack is Americans' privacy. Every Americans' privacy. We have to give up all of our privacy. — Rand Paul
We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind. — Patrick Soon-Shiong
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
One of the things we're going to have to discuss and debate is how are we striking this balance between the need to keep the American people safe and our concerns about privacy. Because there are some trade-offs involved. I welcome this debate, and I think it's healthy for our democracy. — Barack Obama
My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so - if I can. I am not so old that I am ashamed of my age and I am not so young that I couldn't have written my book and that is all the public needs to know about my age. — Margaret Mitchell
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
Privacy And Freedom Quotes
Crypto anarchy is a pivotal tool to reduce government power, and enable freedom and privacy. — Adam Back
I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building. — Edward Snowden
I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it. — Dave Reichert
In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace. — Richard Louv
Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom. — Joyce Carol Oates
I think that in today's world the right to privacy and freedom of the press are set on a collision course. — Rob Lowe
If you have a disease and suddenly start getting ads for cures for that disease and it's an embarrassing disease - all that kind of stuff it just gets into that zone of autonomy or privacy where you feel a sense of freedom to be who you want to be. — Tim Wu
In decision after decision on the bench, Judge [Samuel] Alito has excused abusive actions by the authorities that intrude on the personal privacy and freedoms of average Americans. — Edward Kennedy
Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has been a guardian of the protections the Constitution provides the American people. She's come to provide balance and a check on government intrusion into our personal privacy and freedoms. — Patrick Leahy
Personal Rights Quotes
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. — Martin Luther King
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. — Aristotle
A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for. — Thurgood Marshall
I don’t believe in courtship.It’s a waste of time. If I love the person, I’ll tell her right away. But for you, I’ll make an exception. Just love me now, and I’ll court you forever. — Ferdinand Marcos
The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world begins. — Joan D. Chittister
We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right. — Lao Tzu
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess. — A. Philip Randolph
When you say to a person of colour, 'When I see you, I don't see you Black; I just see everybody the same' think about that. You don't have the right to say to a person, 'I do not see you as you are; I want to see you as I would be more comfortable seeing you.' — Jane Elliott
Personal Information Quotes
Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ — Eleanor Roosevelt
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. — Man Ray
This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways. — Bill Gates
It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression. — J. Edgar Hoover
When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance. — Leon Festinger
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. — Russell Baker
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. — Wilson Mizner
Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits. — Alan Cohen
I don’t think a regular person appreciates how insane it is that computers work. I propose we stare at each other mind-blown for about 1 hour per day, in small groups in circles around a chip on a pedestal, appreciating that we can coerce physics to process information like that. — Andrej Karpathy
Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters. — Nicola Sturgeon
An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general. — Stefan Kanfer
The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time. — Maureen Dowd
Many of my personal passwords are still being held by the Chapter 11 team–to say nothing about data. — Sam Bankman-Fried
For the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection. But what he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected. — Potter Stewart
There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas corpus during the Civil War, Alien and Sedition Acts in World War I, or Japanese internment camps in World War II, presidents have gone too far. — Dick Durbin
I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I'm willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero. My own view is that encryption is a much better, much better world. And I'm not the only person that thinks that. — Tim Cook
My guideline has always been to avoid a focus on me personally. Not because of any deep, dark secrets. Rather just a sense of privacy. — Bill Gates
The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security. — Louis J. Freeh
But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person. — Andrew Scott
We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened. — John S. Pistole
Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful. — Roger Mudd
I am persuaded that we are all surrounded by an atmosphere - a separate, sensitive, distinct envelope extending some distance from our visible persons - and whenever my invisible atmosphere is invaded, it affects my whole nervous system. The proximity of any bodies but those I love best is unendurable to my body. — Fanny Kemble
The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting? — C. S. Lewis
With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy. — Tom Udall
Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy. — Joshua Lederberg
No one wants their personal emails made public, and I think most people understand that and respect that privacy. — Hillary Clinton
If you love someone, then your freedom is curtailed. If you love someone, you give up much of your privacy. If you love someone, then you are no longer merely one person but half of a couple. To think or behave any other way is to risk losing that love. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Personal privacy is a closely held American value. — Anna Eshoo
Money...buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.... The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is. — Fran Lebowitz
Where it gets clear for me about the privacy issue is with my kids because they didn't choose this kind of life. I'm an incredibly open person, though - I'll tell anyone anything. — Carrie-Anne Moss
I don't want to become more famous because I don't have any privacy anymore and I hate that very much. Outside of work I just want to be an ordinary person, not to be recognized, not a monkey on the street when everybody is looking at you. — Tony Leung Chiu Wai
When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies were collective, both socialism/communism and nationalism. — Aleksandar Hemon
The privacy and dignity of our citizens are being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen -- a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a person's life. — William O. Douglas
Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty linen, always this air of alertness for personal happenings, personalities, personalities, personalities. Always this subtle criticism and appraisal of other people, this analysis of other people's motives. If anatomy presupposes a corpse, then psychology presupposes a world of corpses. Personalities, which means personal criticism and analysis, presuppose a whole world laboratory of human psyches waiting to be vivisected. If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology. — D. H. Lawrence
The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules. — Joan Didion
We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened. — John Pistole
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
How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications. — John Gilmore
I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have. — Mario Vazquez
When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement. — Henry Rollins
I don't have Twitter or Facebook or MySpace or any of those things. I think there's a kind of risky thing privacy wise and I'm a private, guided person and don't want to get too open. — Hannah Murray
If someone is of the opinion that biological men ought to use the men's room and biological females ought to use the women's room - he is regarded as a bigot. I find this absolutely astonishing. Especially since using a toilet facility is a matter of the privacy of other people who are in the room. It's not a matter of the rights of the transgender person. — William Lane Craig
I am convinced that a person is entitled to as much privacy as he wants. It should be his privilege to keep certain areas of his life out of the newspapers. — Paul Newman
I think individuals have a right to privacy, but that ought to include the right to prevent private institutions from monitoring what you do and building up a personal profile for you so that they can direct you in particular ways by their effective control over the internet, and that doesn't happen of course. — Noam Chomsky
I believe in privacy, I believe that people especially when it comes to private emails, personal emails, et cetera, I think people have a right to that privacy. — Sean Hannity
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