Privacy Quotes

I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me. People began to follow me around, and it did, it was very disrupting to think that your privacy was being violated, and for no reason that I could come up with.

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

The Microsoft actions announced today are exactly the kinds of industry initiatives we need. Microsoft is using its resources to bring real privacy protection to Internet users by creating incentives for more websites to provide strong privacy protection.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

You know, we're very private, and I think that we really separate and try to keep our privacy to ourselves. There's things that people assume a lot of times, and we understand that people are interested, but we really try to keep our family life private as much as we can.

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.

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.

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.

Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.

TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.

Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth.

When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?

Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.