Privacy Quotes

• Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

  John Perry Barlow

  Technology, Government, Asking

  "The Guardian view on internet privacy: it’s the psychology, stupid". www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2018.

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• Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Men, Progress Of Society

  The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 18 (1943)

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• Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

  Margaret Cho

  Giving Up, Reality, World

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• In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

  Al Gore

  Priorities, Secret, Surveillance

  Twitter post from Jun 06, 2013

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

  Billy Graham

  Realizing, Lost, Valuable

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• You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.

  Morgan Freeman

  Appreciate, Know How, Knows

  "Morgan Freeman: 'Strive for Pleasure and Peace'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. November 28, 2012.

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• 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

  Men, Civilization, Reason

  Anton Chekhov (2010). “Five Plays”, p.5, Stanford University Press

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• Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

  Marlon Brando

  Absolutes, Prerequisites, Entitled

  "Marlon Brando". Book by David Shipman, Ch. 11, 1989.

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• If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

  Eric Schmidt

  Google, Want, Firsts

  "Google CEO On Privacy". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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

  Eric Schmidt

  Thinking, Where You Are, Knows

  "What's wrong with tech leaders?" By Norman Matloff, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2014.

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• I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Exploits, Personal Life, Values

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

  William O. Douglas

  Law, Government, Secret

  "Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. December 12, 1966.

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• We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

  Andy Rooney

  Loneliness, Desire, Away From Each Other

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.129, PublicAffairs

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• When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

  David Brin

  People, Accountability, Literature

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• Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the cave, the tribal teepee, the pueblo, the community fortress, man emerged to build himself a house of his own with a shelter in it for himself and his diversions. Every age has seen it so. The poor might have to huddle together in cities for need's sake, and the frontiersman cling to his neighbors for the sake of protection. But in each civilization, as it advanced, those who could afford it chose the luxury of a withdrawing-place.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Men, Jewels, Civilization

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• There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Men, Rights, Law

  Look magazine, March 17, 1959.

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• I'm a very private person. I like staying home and doing my stuff. I hate people invading on my privacy. I hate talking about my private life.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Hate, Home, Talking

  Roundtable interview, www.ign.com. October 5, 2004.

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• Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Self, Media, Invasion

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• The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

  Andy Rooney

  Confidence, Blessed, Doors

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• Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

  Roger Mudd

  Powerful, Believe, Journalist

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• Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place

  Kate Millett

  Taboo

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Law Courts, Government, Libertarian Party

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• It's so much unwanted interest in your privacy that you don't want to invite anymore.

  Natalie Portman

  Want, Interest, Invites

  "Natalie Portman talks directing her first movie and why you'll never see her on social media". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. August 17, 2016.

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• Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

  Lewis Mumford

  Life, Aggravation, Sacred

  Lewis Mumford (2016). “The Culture of Cities”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.

  Andy Rooney

  Distance, Silence, Desire

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