Privacy Quotes

• Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

  John Perry Barlow

  Technology, Government, Asking

  "The Guardian view on internet privacy: it’s the psychology, stupid". www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2018.

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• I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

  Edward Snowden

  Creativity, Intellectual, Important

  "NSA leaker comes forward, warns of agency's 'existential threat'" by Matt Smith, www.cnn.com. June 9, 2013.

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• You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.

  Morgan Freeman

  Appreciate, Know How, Knows

  "Morgan Freeman: 'Strive for Pleasure and Peace'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. November 28, 2012.

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• Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Men, Progress Of Society

  The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 18 (1943)

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• Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

  Margaret Cho

  Giving Up, Reality, World

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

  Billy Graham

  Realizing, Lost, Valuable

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• Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

  Richard Perle

  Confused, Invisibility Cloak, Law

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• I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.

  Eric Schmidt

  Thinking, People, Google

  "Google CEO Eric Schmidt Advises You Change Your Name To Escape Online Shame". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2010.

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• The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, Civilization, Reason

  Anton Chekhov (2010). “Five Plays”, p.5, Stanford University Press

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• In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

  Al Gore

  Priorities, Secret, Surveillance

  Twitter post from Jun 06, 2013

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• In the olden times, privacy was good. Today people want to share, people are more open.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  People, Want, Today

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• Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

  Marlon Brando

  Absolutes, Prerequisites, Entitled

  "Marlon Brando". Book by David Shipman, Ch. 11, 1989.

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• When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

  David Brin

  People, Accountability, Literature

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• There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Men, Rights, Law

  Look magazine, March 17, 1959.

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• Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.

  danah boyd

  Technology, Publicity, Social Media

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• Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Cameras, Needs

  "Bill Gates And President Bill Clinton On The Nsa, Safe Sex, And American Exceptionalism". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. September 23, 2012.

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• Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Individual, No Point

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.465, Macmillan

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• For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to relate to the inside instead of the outside.

  Khalil Gibran

  Everyday, Tests, Retiring

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• I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

  Daniel Craig

  Protect

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• Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the cave, the tribal teepee, the pueblo, the community fortress, man emerged to build himself a house of his own with a shelter in it for himself and his diversions. Every age has seen it so. The poor might have to huddle together in cities for need's sake, and the frontiersman cling to his neighbors for the sake of protection. But in each civilization, as it advanced, those who could afford it chose the luxury of a withdrawing-place.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Men, Jewels, Civilization

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• I like the privacy of my life and I protect it quite vigilantly.

  Nicole Kidman

  Protect

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Dec 10, 2016

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• I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.

  Peter Jennings

  Humor, Space, People

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• Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.

  Andy Grove

  Age, Problem

  "Andy Grove: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Giving, Monsters

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• If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

  Eric Schmidt

  Google, Want, Firsts

  "Google CEO On Privacy". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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