Privacy Quotes - Page 5

• People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more

  Sara Paretsky

  Space, Cities, People

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• A: Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the history of the United States. But that's not his goal. [His] objective is to expose software that people around the world use without knowing what they are exposing themselves without consciously agreeing to surrender their rights to privacy. [He] has a huge number of documents that would be very harmful to the US government if they were made public.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Rights, Government, Numbers

  "About the Reuters article" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2013.

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• Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate organization and monopoly are the very means whereby property is casting aside its privacy.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mean, Names, Organization

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.121, University of Chicago Press

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• The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children.

  Teresa Wright

  Children, Player, Boss

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• My Dad used to say that the balance of the world relied on all of the monks who were living outside of society in creative isolation. I don't quite understand the ascetic life or the private life or the monastic private life. But I definitely understand privacy's value.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Dad, Creative, Balance

  "It’s Sufjan Stevens’ Way or the Highway". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2009.

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• You have babies at home. And you have a life. And if you don't, you have to realize that we're people and that we just need privacy and we need our respect. And those are things that you have to have as a human being.

  Britney Spears

  Baby, Home, People

  "A defiant Britney Spears takes on the tabloids". "Dateline NBC", www.nbcnews.com.

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• Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal crises of the aging preadolescent; all are familiar images of American society. They are signs of private nightmares of incoherence and disorder in broken climaxes where technologies in pursuit of mastery create ever-worsening problems - private nightmares expanded to a social level.

  Paul Shepard

  Technology, Broken, Historical

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• Even if you can't sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Home, Musical, Wells

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• Following the enormous conjecture in the press over the last two weeks, I wish to confirm that I have been tested HIV positive and have AIDS. I felt it correct to keep this information private to date to protect the privacy of those around me. However, the time has come now for my friends and fans around the world to know the truth and I hope that everyone will join with my doctor and all those worldwide in the fight against this terrible disease.

  Freddie Mercury

  Fighting, Order, Doctors

  Freddie Mercury's statement to the press the day before his death, November 23, 1991.

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• Then again maybe there's something that I've been doing in the privacy of my own bedroom my whole life that I think is perfectly normal but is actually illegal in thirty-two states.

  Megan McCafferty

  Thinking, Perfectly Normal, Two

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.443, Crown

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• If you want to travel on the airline system, you give up your privacy. If you want your privacy, don't fly. Flying is voluntary.

  Robert Crandall

  Giving Up, Flying, September 11

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• Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

  Daniel Webster

  Freedom, Rights, Tolerance

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851). “The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Speeches on various occasions”, p.393

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• Personal privacy is a closely held American value.

  Anna Eshoo

  Personal Privacy, American Values, Values

  "More Calif. hearings on AT&T/T-Mobile to come - DoD to unveil cyber strategy today - House E&C holds privacy hearing - House Dems not pleased with GOP spectrum bill" by Tony Romm, www.politico.com. July 14, 2011.

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• Everybody can't be like Redford and pop out there and make big bucks right away because you look like a Greek god... The guy's a friend of mine and he has absolutely no privacy in his life.

  Bruce Dern

  Guy, Greek, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.

  Edward Snowden

  Children, Growing Up, Today

  "The Alternative Christmas Message", www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.

  Howard Berman

  Years, Three, Debate

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• Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

  Life, Religion, Private Life

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• What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressed by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.

  Judith Martin

  Desire, Democracy, Nicknames

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• make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I used to follow a practice - somewhat contrived, I admit - to write the man's name on a piece of scrap paper, drop it into the lowest drawer of my desk, and say to myself: "That finishes the incident, and so far as I'm concerned, that fellow." The drawer became over the years a sort of private wastebasket for crumbled-up spite and discarded personalities.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hate, Writing, Men

  "At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends". Book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 52, 1967.

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• As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

  Shelley Berman

  Sex, Culture, Loud

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray: They overleapt the horizon's edge, Searched with Apollo's privilege; Through man, and woman, and sea, and star, Saw the dance of nature forward far; Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times, Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Stars, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.112, Graphic Arts Books

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• I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan. ... They need to live their lives as well.

  Jeremy Lin

  People, Taiwan, Needs

  "Lin seeks privacy for Taiwan relatives" by Elizabeth Yuan, www.cnn.com. February 20, 2012.

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• PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hope, Military, Gentleman

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.171, 谷月社

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• The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

  Immanuel Kant

  Business, Philosophy, Giving

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• There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that's happening on what we consider our private property. That type of technology has to stimulate us to think about what is it that we cherish in privacy, and how far we want to protect it and from whom.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Technology, Thinking, Air

  "Sotomayor: Americans Should be Alarmed by Spread of Drones" by Jacob Gershman, www.politico.com. September 12, 2014.

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