Privacy Quotes - Page 28

• 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

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• The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with the gravel, sits afar and retired, off the road, hangs out no sign of refreshment for man and beast, but says, by all possible hints and signs, I wish to be alone,--good-by,--fare-well. But the Landlord can afford to live without privacy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Men, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1020, Delphi Classics

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• There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Space, Solitude, Horizon

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.81, 谷月社

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• The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Solitude, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.398

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• Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.

  Mason Cooley

  Cities, Desert, Caves

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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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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Sometimes you just need your privacy.

  Rihanna

  Needs, Sometimes

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• 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

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• 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

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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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• 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 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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• 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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