Privacy Quotes - Page 10

• 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

  Trying, Liberty, Doe

  "Edward Snowden: Saving Us From the United Stasi of America". www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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• I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others. So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy.

  Tim Cook

  Struggle, Gay, Sacrifice

  "Tim Cook Speaks Up" by Tim Cook, www.bloomberg.com. October 30, 2014.

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• Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it's also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy.

  Bill Keller

  Thinking, Treasure, Internet

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• 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

  Fighting, Doctors, Issues

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• It's the off-the-court spotlight in terms of having people look at you in terms of analyzing every little thing you do in your life, or having less privacy in your day-to-day activities, that's an area I need to get more accustomed to.

  Jeremy Lin

  People, Needs, Looks

  "Interview: Jeremy Lin on Embracing 'Linsanity' Spotlight, Where God Wants Him to Be". Interview with Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. October 2, 2013.

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• Privacy is a fundamental human need.

  Bruce Schneier

  Needs, Fundamentals, Humans

  "Data and Goliath: Privacy Expert Explains the Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World". Interview with Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, www.democracynow.org. March 13, 2015.

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• What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Men, Race

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.9238, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Wall, Silence, House

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• The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

  Aristotle

  Single, Men, Silence

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• But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

  Andrew Scott

  Differences, Secrecy, Persons

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

  Jodie Foster

  Beautiful, People, Looks

  "Jodie Foster's Golden Globes acceptance speech: Did she come out? Depends on whom you ask". nationalpost.com. January 14, 2013.

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• If you had been a public figure from the time you were a toddler, if you'd had to fight for a life that felt real and honest and normal against all odds, than maybe to you might value privacy above all else. I have given everything up there from the time that I was three-years old. That's reality show enough, don't you think?

  Jodie Foster

  Real, Fighting, Thinking

  “Jodie Foster at Golden Globes: I came out ‘a thousand years ago’” by Kevin P.Sullivan, www.mtv.com. January 13, 2013.

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• Just to set the record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyone’s privacy, to destroy someone’s sense of self.

  Jodie Foster

  Self, Doe, Salary

  "Jodie Foster Blasts Kristen Stewart–Robert Pattinson Break-Up Spectacle". www.thedailybeast.com. August 15, 2012.

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• I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.

  Carla Gugino

  Protective

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

  Jeff Beck

  Trying, Woe, Cherish

  FaceBook post by Jeff Beck from Apr 13, 2017

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• When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.

  Steve Kanaly

  Mega, Human Condition, Exposed

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• This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads, our factories, our public utilities, gave us the telegraph, the telephone, the electric light, the automobile, the airplane, the radio and a higher standard of living for all the people than obtains anywhere else in the world. No great invention ever came from a government-owned industry.

  George B. Cortelyou

  Country, Airplane, Light

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• I hated the place (Hollywood), not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation.

  Jean Arthur

  Magazines, Hollywood, Fans

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• The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitutions protection of privacy.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Home, Heart, Intimate Relationships

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• I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

  Larry Niven

  Fads, Passing, Suspects

  Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.361, Macmillan

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• What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

  Keith Ablow

  Rights, Hell, Persons

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• Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it's National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it's National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it's counter-intelligence.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Running, Army, People

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• I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, God, Heart

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?

  Linda Tripp

  Expectations, Crime

  "Tripp: Pentagon settlement wasn't 'financial victory'", www.cnn.com. December 2, 2003.

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• People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?

  Linda Tripp

  People, Expectations, Criminals

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