Privacy Quotes - Page 32

• My life
  has appeared unclothed in court,
  detail by detail,
  death-bone witness by death-bone witness,
  and I was shamed at the verdict.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, Regret, Details

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.

  Joan Didion

  America, Secret, Mobility

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.57, Zola Books

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• The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.

  Maureen Dowd

  Silence, Sound, Attention

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• Faria Alam whined about the invasion of her privacy in yet another lucrative interview earlier this week. There is very good money to be made out of whining about the invasion of your privacy.

  Rod Liddle

  Soccer, Football, Invasion

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• I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den.

  Frank Miller

  Home, Writing, Lions

  "Frank Miller Talks SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR, the future of 300, Reincarnating Robocop, Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, and More at Comic-Con". Interview with Hunter Daniels, collider.com. July 28, 2014.

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• There are people who are always going to try to engage in activity that is illegal and they're going to try to subvert surveillance. But everybody should not give up their liberties and rights to privacy because some people are going to [do that]. We shouldn't stop or limit our basic liberties because some people are going to engage in criminal activities.

  Laura Poitras

  Giving Up, Rights, People

  "Laura Poitras Talks CITIZENFOUR, Her First Impression of Edward Snowden, Her Commitment to Fearless Adversarial Journalism and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 26, 2014.

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• Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.

  Jay Roach

  Giving Up, Figures, Certain

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear is lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating... Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

  Cyril Connolly

  Dream, Children, Hate

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of -pick a number- 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds.

  Graydon Carter

  Numbers, Issues, Hypocrisy

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• I am persuaded that we are all surrounded by an atmosphere - a separate, sensitive, distinct envelope extending some distance from our visible persons - and whenever my invisible atmosphere is invaded, it affects my whole nervous system. The proximity of any bodies but those I love best is unendurable to my body.

  Fanny Kemble

  Distance, Love Is, Atmosphere

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• We need to find a way forward to make sure that we can stop terrorists while protecting the privacy, and liberty, of innocent Americans.

  Barack Obama

  Way Forward, Nsa, Giving

  "Sen. Rand Paul calls NSA spying an 'utter, frank hypocrisy'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2013.

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• I think it's important to recognize that you can't have 100 per cent security and also then have 100 per cent privacy and zero inconvenience.... In the abstract you can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential program run amok, but when you actually look at the details then I think we've struck the right balance.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Brother, Zero

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• Look at it this way: this administration is taking unprecedented steps to make sure that the government's secrets remain private while simultaneously invading the privacy of its citizens... Many innocents must be violated so that a few guilty people can be stopped. It's a digital stop-and-frisk.

  Charles M. Blow

  Government, Nsa, People

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• As new discoveries are causing all-penetrating physical lights so to abound as that, as has been said, we shall soon not know where in the world to get any darkness, so our new facilities for every sort of communication work to reduce privacy much within its former limits.

  Harriet Martineau

  Communication, Light, Discovery

  Harriet Martineau (1845). “Life in the Sick-room: Essays”, p.90

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• The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system.

  Penelope Lively

  Past, Years, Ultimate

  Penelope Lively (2012). “How It All Began: A Novel”, p.174, Penguin

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• I would not open windows into men's souls.

  Elizabeth I

  Men, Soul, Civil Rights

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• If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.

  Faye Wattleton

  Rights, Birth Control, Able

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• Privacy is like sleep - something you don't appreciate until you have to go without it.

  Helen McCloy

  Sleep, Appreciate

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• You never understand how dear your privacy is until you lose it.

  Rosie Perez

  Dear, Loses

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• I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

  Emily Carr

  Envelopes, Made, Thrust

  Emily Carr (2002). “The Emily Carr collection”, Key Porter Books

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• stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Eye, Rights, Democracy

  Martha Gellhorn (2014). “The View from the Ground”, p.284, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.

  Frances Farmer

  My Own, Own Business

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• When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.

  Ruth Rendell

  Children, Heart, Secret

  Ruth Rendell (2010). “Road Rage: (A Wexford Case)”, p.61, Random House

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• We are moving into a world of unaccountable and secretive corporations that manage all our communications and work hand in hand with governments to make us visible to them. Our privacy is being strip-mined and hoarded.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Moving, Communication, Government

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• Privacy is a bourgeois fantasy.

  Johannes Grenzfurthner

  Fantasy, Bourgeois

  Talk at Arse Elektronika, 2010.

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