Privacy Quotes - Page 25

• But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Lying, Hands, Bikinis

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

  George Orwell

  Love And Friendship, Tragedy, Ancient

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps. When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it.

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt

  Cnn, Phones, Two

  4 Copy quote

• I don't know how it is up North, of course, but down South there are times when Southern women feel a need for privacy.

  John Lee Mahin

  Women, Up North, Southern

  5 Copy quote

• Sometimes you just need your privacy.

  Rihanna

  Needs, Sometimes

  10 Copy quote

• Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Addresses

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.105, Xist Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

  Todd Solondz

  Nice, Mean, Loss

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Benefits, Way, I've Learned

  4 Copy quote

• If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.

  Coretta Scott King

  Democracy, Adults, Constitution

  10 Copy quote

• When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.

  Princess Margaret

  Growing Up, Goldfish, My Sister

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

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Gentleman, Honor

  10 Copy quote

• There is a solitude of space.
  A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Space, Sea, Soul

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1977, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.

  Frank Church

  Fighting, Agency, People

  62 Copy quote

• Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Children, Women, Home

  5 Copy quote

• Passion is what you would do if you got to choose. It's what you think about doing in the privacy of your own mind, without ear of dismissal or mockery.

  Urijah Faber

  Passion, Thinking, Mma

  20 Copy quote

• If those of us in positions of responsibility fail to do everything in our power to protect the right of privacy, we risk something far more valuable than money. We risk our way of life.

  Tim Cook

  Responsibility, Technology, Giving

  "How Tim Cook's Stand Over Digital Privacy Could Define Apple's Future". "All Things Considered" with Laura Sydell, www.npr.org. February 25, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Government, Data, Games

  8 Copy quote

• When I see the move of RFID into universities, it concerns me, ... It is sending a message that not only do we not have to worry about privacy but you can profit from it by a career perspective.

  Katherine Albrecht

  Moving, Careers, Perspective

  4 Copy quote

• Sometimes people who have their lives played out in public don't feel they have the privacy to continually journey within. I did, and that's why I have longevity.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Journey, People, Sometimes

  5 Copy quote

• There's no privacy for the violently dead.

  Zelda Popkin

  Death

  Zelda Popkin (1995). “Time Off for Murder”, p.88, Bitingduck Press LLC

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem to assume that there will be large, monolithic bureaucracies...that are capable of harnessing computers for one-way surveillance of an unsuspecting populace. I've come to feel that computation just doesn't work that way. Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire.

  Bruce Sterling

  Fire, Organization, Worry

  6 Copy quote

• Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Communion

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2058, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The actual breakthrough in the privacy of the studio, when one dares to apply paint in a new manner, is a solitary thrill, dependent upon no one else.

  Mary Carroll Nelson

  Thrill, Originality, Paint

  Mary Carroll Nelson, Beth Ames Swartz (1984). “Connecting: the art of Beth Ames Swartz”, Northland Pub

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The FBI wanted us to introduce the 1994 Digital Telephony bill today and I said absolutely not. They have to understand they have a Vermonter as the Chairman Of the Technology and Law committee and that we Vermonters respect our privacy.

  Patrick Leahy

  Technology, Law, Bills

  4 Copy quote

• Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Spiritual, Pain, Hardship

  11 Copy quote