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

  Billy Graham

  Realizing, Lost, Valuable

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Rights, Government, Hands

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• I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.

  Peter Jennings

  Humor, Space, People

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• Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.

  Edward V. Long

  Naked, Goldfish, Modern

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• But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

  Roger Mudd

  Doe, Journalist, Acknowledge

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• When the social network doesn't find it convenient to have privacy, we say, "Okay, social network, you don't want privacy, maybe we won't have it either." But we did this without having the conversation.

  Sherry Turkle

  Social Network, Okay

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.

  Michael Novak

  Stars, Rocks, Rock Star

  "Kid Rock Sues to Stop Sale of Sex Video", www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2006.

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• May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

  May Sarton

  Fashion, What Matters, Trying

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.2157, e-artnow

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• Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Self, Media, Invasion

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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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• Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.

  Andy Grove

  Age, Problem

  "Andy Grove: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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