Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
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.
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.
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.
Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about.
I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.
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.
We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.
When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.
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.
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.
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.
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
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.
Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.
Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
It's so much unwanted interest in your privacy that you don't want to invite anymore.
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
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.
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