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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• Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Individual, No Point

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.465, Macmillan

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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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• Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Cameras, Needs

  "Bill Gates And President Bill Clinton On The Nsa, Safe Sex, And American Exceptionalism". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. September 23, 2012.

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

  Billy Graham

  Realizing, Lost, Valuable

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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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• 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

  Rights, Government, America

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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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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• Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.

  William O. Douglas

  Brother, Powerful, World Government

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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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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• 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.

  Zachary Quinto

  Thinking, Saws, Vulnerable

  Interview with Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.

  Julie Andrews

  Thinking, Nun, Concerned

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• It's a magical way to spend a summer - privacy at sea, and fun and friends in port.

  Ivana Trump

  Summer, Fun, Sea

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• In the olden times, privacy was good. Today people want to share, people are more open.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  People, Want, Today

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

  Nicole Kidman

  Protect

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Dec 10, 2016

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• I think privacy is valuable. You don't have to share everything, and it's healthy to occasionally hit the pause button and ask yourself if you're oversharing. But at the end of the day, if you're not doing anything wrong you don't have anything to hide.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Thinking, Healthy, The End Of The Day

  "Forget Hollywood: Ashton Kutcher is Silicon Valley's secret weapon". Details Interview, www.celebitchy.com. August 10, 2011.

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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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• 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 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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• There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

  George Eliot

  Life, Literature, Determined

  'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 3

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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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• Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy

  Tom Robbins

  Loner, Attention, Way

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