Privacy Quotes - Page 26

• Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the intelligence community more transparent and accountable.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Nsa, Community, Ordinary

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• Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too. And the leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Phones

  President Obama’s speech on NSA reforms, www.washingtonpost.com. January 17, 2014.

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• I advocate for protecting the liberty of the net, and securing privacy. I argue against people who believe both are somehow given automatically. They're not.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Believe, People, Liberty

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• It's so hard, because everyone's got a camera-phone, and everyone wants to get their picture on the blogs. So they'll send anything that they have to the blogs. So you don't really get any privacy.

  Justin Bieber

  Phones, Cameras, Want

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game" by Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Children, Ambition, Twenties

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• Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy.

  Walter Benjamin

  Rotten, Mundane Life, Affair

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.484, Harvard University Press

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• What fun it is to generalize in the privacy of a note book. It is as I imagine waltzing on ice might be. A great delicious sweep in one direction, taking you your full strength, and then with no trouble at all, an equally delicious sweep in the opposite direction. My note book does not help me think, but it eases my crabbed heart.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Fun, Book, Heart

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• if I believed that the choice lay between a sacrifice of the completest order of biography and that of the inviolability of private epistolary correspondence, I could not hesitate for a moment. I would keep the old and precious privacy,-the inestimable right of every one who has a friend and can write to him, - I would keep our written confidence from being made biographical material, as anxiously as I would keep our spoken conversation from being noted down for the good of society.

  Harriet Martineau

  Writing, Sacrifice, Order

  Harriet Martineau (1845). “Life in the Sick-room: Essays”, p.92

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• There's no privacy for the violently dead.

  Zelda Popkin

  Death

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

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• I think we left out one of the really important elements contributing to the dynamism of society, and that is the right to privacy. I mean something more than the right to shave in private. I mean the right to join what I want to join, to do what I want to do, or not to do what I might do without giving anyone a reason, either in advance or afterwards. That does not mean that I am seeking for irresponsibility socially.

  Chester Barnard

  Mean, Thinking, Rights

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• One good thing about punctuality is that it's a sure way to help you enjoy a few minutes of privacy.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Way, Helping, Punctuality

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• Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.

  Barbara Mertz

  Children, Feels, Humans

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• A man's home is no longer his castle; it is no longer a place away from urgent tasks because the telephone breaches the walls with imperious demands.

  Charles Hummel

  Wall, Home, Men

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• Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be a public speaker because she has written a book? Writing is a very private business. I do not know any other occupation which requires so much privacy unless it is a life of prayer or a life of crime.

  Corra May Harris

  Prayer, Book, Writing

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• 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

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• There's a million more pros than cons, for sure. Obviously, the privacy thing is a little different. It's not normal to wake up and have 12 paparazzi cars waiting outside to follow you to Starbucks in the morning. But, there's a lot more pros, and I'm willing to put up with those cons, for sure.

  Taylor Lautner

  Morning, Car, Waiting

  "Taylor Lautner Video Interview THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE; Also Talks BREAKING DAWN, ABDUCTION, and STRETCH ARMSTRONG". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 12, 2010.

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• It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.

  Adam Smith

  Kings, Invisible Hand, People

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 2, ch. 3 (1776)

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• Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

  Luke Ford

  Religious, Home, Views

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• To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should strike down legislation only when a clear constitutional violation exists. When judicial activists resort to various inventions and theories to impose their personal views on privacy and liberty, they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judiciary as an institution and undermine the role of the other branches of government.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Views, Liberty

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• A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

  James Thurber

  Husband, Women, Party

  James Thurber (2002). “Thurber Country: A Collection of Pieces about Males and Females, Mainly of Our Own Species”

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• To a greater or lesser extent there goes on in every person a struggle between two forces: the longing for privacy and the urge to go places: the introversion, interest directed within oneself toward one's own inner life of vigorous thought and fancy; and extroversion, interest directed outward, toward the external world of people and tangible values.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Struggle, Journey, Two

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Fredson Bowers (1981). “Lectures on Russian literature”, Harcourt

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• You can't have your privacy violated if you don't know your privacy is violated.

  Mike Rogers

  Knows, Ifs

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• I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

  Lord Byron

  Names, Vices, Noble

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• Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

  Colin Wilson

  Fun, Mean, People

  "Where the outsider went next". Interview with Lisa Gee, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2002.

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• I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at all - no more than any other child who read a lot of books. I began to write fiction and poetry when I first had a room that was truly my own with a door that shut and some measure, however fragile, of privacy.

  Marge Piercy

  Children, Book, Writing

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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