Privacy Quotes - Page 10

• Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.

  George Steiner

  Night, Lasts, Roof

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.313, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• What is privacy if not for invading?

  Quentin Crisp

  Invading, Ifs

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• The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on women.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Sex, Believe, Men

  Giacomo Leopardi, Ángel Flores (1966). “Poems and prose”

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• Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that whether for pain or profit, by design or accident, we not call public attention to ourselves.

  Diana Trilling

  Pain, Design, Attention

  Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

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• The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Exercise, Animal, Understanding

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

  Earl Warren

  Communication, Fields, Fantasy

  Concurring in the judgment, Lopez v. United States 373 U.S. 427, 1963.

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• I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free.

  Tim Winton

  Art, War, Book

  Tim Winton (2009). “Breath”, p.60, Pan Macmillan

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• We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was a rare sight below the waves, of a man's privacy and turmoil, of his dignity upended by the overpowering necessity of pure fantasy, pure thought, by the irreducible human element - Mind.

  Ian Mcewan

  Men, Sight, Self

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• Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

  Stephen King

  Friendship, Spy, True Friendship

  Stephen King (1999). “Hearts In Atlantis”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business

  Gregory David Roberts

  Rain, Showers, Own Business

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.348, Macmillan

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• Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

  John Updike

  Truth, Men, Literature

  "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs". Book by John Updike, 1989.

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• You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.

  Josh Turner

  Growing Up, Home, Sacrifice

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• 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.

  Ron Paul

  Freedom, Government, Society

  The Republicans' First Presidential Candidates Debate, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• 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.

  Jean Paul

  Family, Dad, Children

  Jean Paul (1866). “Levana: or, The doctrine of education”, p.17

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• I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential - especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.

  Susan Orlean

  Information Is Power, Hands, Issues

  "Stay Out of My Dropbox" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I'm very grateful for the support and kindness that we've gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband's policies or what have you, they care about children and that's been good to see.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Husband, Kindness

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• Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes - but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Business, Growing Up

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.237, Penguin

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• I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.

  Terry Gross

  Respect Someone, Want, Knows

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• Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Hate, Interviews, Bigs

  "Exclusive Interview: Zach Galifianakis Talks The Hangover Part II". Interview with Silas Lesnick, www.comingsoon.net. May 24, 2011.

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• We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  People, Citizens, Crime

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion - unless he happens to be an American, when his ignorance of good manners is indulged.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Ignorance, Good Man, Language

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• 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.

  Tim McGraw

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• But what I want to assure and reassure the public is we are concerned about your safety, your security, and your privacy. Let's work together in partnership to ensure that we can have the best way forward.

  John S. Pistole

  Way Forward, Safety, Together

  Transcript: Senate Hearing on TSA, Full-body Scanners, www.cnet.com. November 16, 2010.

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• I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.

  Maggie Q

  Nice, Technology, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.

  Asne Seierstad

  Mean, Names, Risk

  "The Bookseller of Kabul author cleared of invading Afghan family's privacy" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2011.

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