Invasion Of Privacy Quotes

• Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Self, Media, Invasion

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• Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it's National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it's National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it's counter-intelligence.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Running, Army, People

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• The social media not only become new platforms for the invasion of privacy, but further legitimate a culture in which monitoring functions are viewed as benign while the state-sponsored society of hyper-fear increasingly defines everyone as either a snitch or a terrorist.

  Henry Giroux

  Media, Culture, Invasion

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm very, very worried about the invasion of privacy rights that we're seeing not only from the N.S.A. and the government but from corporate America, as well. We're losing our privacy rights. It's a huge issue.

  Bernie Sanders

  Rights, Government, America

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• ...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.

  Paul Simon

  Numbers, Cards, World

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• Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Freedom, Independent, Men

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• In fact, we have never had more invasions of privacy than we have now [with Barack Obama].

  Nat Hentoff

  Invasion, Facts, Privacy

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• When government gets between my lips and my stomach; I call that invasion of privacy!

  Joel Salatin

  Government, Invasion, Lips

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

  Justin Timberlake

  Invasion, Privacy, Fame

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• I must admit, the constant invasion of privacy was becoming a real concern. Ive been asked for autographs while Ive been doing laps in the pool and even in the toilet!

  Rick Astley

  Real, Lap, Toilets

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• When came the invasion of privacy.That kind of thing turns the newspaper from a friendly organ - not necessarily appeasing everybody - into the enemy. It's one reason why newspapers have suffered circulation falls.

  Harold Evans

  Fall, Enemy, Friendly

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2009.

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• I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy.

  Will Self

  Phones, Age, Texting

  "The joy of text" by Will Self and Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• If I see a movie star in the department store buying something, I'll kind of sidle up and see what they're saying, what they look like, how they sound. That's an invasion of privacy.

  Tom Lehrer

  Stars, Sound, Buying Something

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.

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• I don't think coaches should have to wear mic's. It is an invasion of privacy. We are trying to accomplish things, and wearing microphones may hinder development by straining the nature of relationships coaches and players have.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Player, Thinking

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• It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.

  Edward Albee

  Answers, Invasion, Privacy

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.61, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My friend asked me recently, "Do you find it weird that you are now the property of other people's imaginations?" I hadn't thought about that before, this passionate following, with fan fiction and artwork. At first it felt like an invasion of privacy, but then I realized it's nice that the character can be shared.

  Alycia Debnam Carey

  Nice, Character, Imagination

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• He has absolutely no judicial supervision of all of this [ invasions of privacy ]. So all in all, [Barack] Obama is a disaster.

  Nat Hentoff

  Invasion, Privacy, Disaster

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• I can't bear to let all this beautiful talk go by. Everybody says... fantastic things. People are always putting it down as an invasion of privacy, but I think everyone should be bugged all the time... bugged and photographed.

  Andy Warhol

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• It can feel like an invasion of privacy, involving an employer in a personal matter.

  Frank Murphy

  Invasion, Matter, Privacy

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• Um, lots of people grab my ass. I'm actually starting to get this thing now where people grab my package. That actually happened once in Boston, it usually doesn't happen. We went over to England and it happened at almost every show. I don't really enjoy any kind of invasion of privacy like that I guess. Grabbing my package is obviously a total invasion of privacy I'm not into that at all.

  Gerard Way

  Boston, People, Invasion

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• Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a direct violation of the Constitutions of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Age. The Teaching of Reading is equally a crime against Privacy and Personhood. One to five years on each count.

  Walter Tevis

  Teaching, Reading, Mean

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