Privacy Quotes - Page 11

• Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

  Alexander Pope

  Atheism, Looks, Slave

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 4 (1734) l. 331

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• The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?

  Anna Quindlen

  Sleep, Men, Issues

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• I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.

  John Travolta

  Mind

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• I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

  Peter Carey

  Writing, Selfishness, Here And There

  "An Interview With Author Peter Carey". Interview with Ben Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2010.

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• The reason for privacy is not so that people will not know you go to the bathroom. It's to allow certain things to go on that you don't want other people to know about, when all is said and done. But the things I don't want other people to know about are not my sex life.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Sex, People, Done

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2001.

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

  Larry Flynt

  Home, People, Can Do

  "Life, Liberty And Pursuit Of Porn". Interview with Xeni Jardin, www.wired.com. Februay 19, 2004.

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• Anyone who lives in Washington and has an official position viscerally understands the cost of a lack of privacy. Every dinner - especially ones with a journalist in attendance - is preceded by the mandatory, 'This is off the record.' But everyone also knows, nothing is really 'off the record.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Cost, Attendance, Records

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• I am not sure precisely why we need to have privacy, but everyone knows for sure that we need to relax and not have to put on our social, outwardly looking face all of the time.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Relax, Needs, Faces

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• I remember in The Conversation, they brought all these coats to me, and they said: Do you want him to look like a detective, Humphrey Bogart? Do you want him to look like a blah blah blah. I didn't know, and said the theme is 'privacy' and chose the plastic coat you could see through. So knowing the theme helps you make a decision when you're not sure which way to go.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Knowing, Decision, Want

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• I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

  Eric Schmidt

  Believe, Happens, Available

  "Google and the Search for the Future" by Holman W. Jenkins Jr., www.wsj.com. August 14, 2010.

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• What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

  Keith Ablow

  Rights, Hell, Persons

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• 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.

  Marquis de Sade

  Law, Long, Silence

  Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel”, Library of Alexandria

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• What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

  John Ruskin

  Horse, Book, Thinking

  John Ruskin (2001). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.43, Electric Book Company

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• I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Cities, People

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• From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

  Nancy Reagan

  White, House, Moments

  Nancy Reagan (2011). “My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan”, p.32, Random House

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• Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Differences, Secrecy, Oh Well

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• The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought, and passion. Publicity is a essential to the one as privacy is to the other.

  John Updike

  Passion, Government, Essence

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• Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. I knew a man of simple habits and earnest character who never put out his hands nor opened his lips to court the public, and having survived several rotten reputations of younger men, honor came at last and sat down with him upon his private bench from which he had never stirred."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Character, Simple

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• I would far rather over-estimate the threat [imposed by the Patriot Act] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and wake up one morning in a world where the 21st century's J Edgar Hoover has the power to blackmail anyone in America.

  Tim Lee

  Morning, America, Wake Up

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• It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would have so diluted investigative powers that it would have frustrated an investigation and created a security harm outweighing the benefit to civil liberties. If you'd rather trade scary stories, that's fine too - just let me know so I can buy a bag of marshmallows before our next round.

  Julian Sanchez

  Scary Stories, Frustrated, Liberty

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• Every CEO of a social network should be required to use the default privacy settings for all of their accounts on the service.

  Anil Dash

  Use, Social Network, Should

  Twitter post from Apr 19, 2010

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• I came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs. My team evaluated them. We scrubbed them thoroughly. We actually expanded some of the oversight, increased some of the safeguards. But my assessment, and my team's assessment was that they help us prevent terrorist attacks. In the abstract, you can complain about 'Big Brother' and how this is a potential program run amok. But when you actually look at the details, then, I think we've struck the right balance.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Brother, Team

  Obama's Remarks on Health Care and Surveillance, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2013.

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• Our work to improve privacy continues today.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Today

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• ...It's important to distinguish between "worry versus harm" when it came to privacy online.

  Larry Page

  Worry, Important, Online

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• In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

  Roger Mudd

  Giving Up, President, Influence

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