Privacy Quotes - Page 12

• You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

  Lisa Kudrow

  "Lisa Kudrow: The Kabluey Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. June 30, 2008.

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• Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

  Edmund Leach

  Secret, Source, Discontent

  BBC Reith Lectures, 1967, in 'Listener' 30 November 1967

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• For the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection. But what he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected.

  Potter Stewart

  Home, People, Office

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• Now, at times this issue has tended to degenerate into an 'either-or' type of debate. Either we protect our people from terror or we protect our most cherished principles. But that is a false choice. It asks too little of us and assumes too little about America.

  Barack Obama

  America, Issues, People

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• The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us.

  George W. Bush

  Law, America, Enforcement

  "Supreme Court Nominee Visits President and Lawmakers; President Bush Speaks in Baltimore About Renewal of Patriot Act, Supreme Court Nomination". "CNN Live Today", edition.cnn.com. July 20, 2005.

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• In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “Miscellanies, embracing Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.19

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• Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Office, House, Needs

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1989). “Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims of Goethe”, Richard West

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• To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

  Moliere

  Wicked, Scandal, Sin

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• Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.

  Moliere

  Thinking, Dust, Long

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• Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present, can make or mar the world. That is why private opinion, and private behavior, and private conversation are so terrifyingly important.

  Jan Struther

  Important, Public Opinion, Mars

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• That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Equality, Legs, Ants

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• DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Political, Progress, Degradation

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.43, 谷月社

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• The necessity of procuring good Intelligence is apparent & need not be further urged-All that remains for me to add, is, that you keep the whole matter as secret as possible. For upon Secrecy, Success depends in most Enterprizes of the kind, and for want of it, they are generally defeated, however well planned & promising a favourable issue.

  George Washington

  Issues, Secret, Add

  To Colonel Elias Dayton, 26 July 1777; cited in Helgerson, CIA Briefings (1996). When President Kennedy visited CIA in January 1961 he saw this letter on display and asked for a copy of it. He later wrote to DCI Allen Dulles, "The letter is both a fine memento of my visit with you and a continuing reminder of the role of intelligence in national policy."

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• When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had already been secretly driving my mother's car around the neighborhood. When I took the test and got my license and my father gave me my own set of keys to the car one night at dinner, it was a major rite of passage for him and my mother. Their perception of me had changed and was formally acknowledged. For me the occasion meant a private sanction to do in public what I had already been doing in secret.

  Robert Fulghum

  Mother, Father, Teaching

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• By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.

  John Ashcroft

  Wall, Law, Community

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• Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are.

  Eric Schmidt

  Shows, Photos Of Yourself, Who You Are

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• The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

  Aristotle

  Single, Men, Silence

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• I want a million dollars a year for illegally having my mind read and privacy stolen.

  Amanda Bynes

  Years, Mind, Dollars

  "Amanda Bynes Twitter: Star Wants $1 Million for 'Illegally Having Mind Read'" by Sami K. Martin, www.christianpost.com. July 2, 2013.

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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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• This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we’re trying to protect.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Trying, Liberty, Doe

  "Edward Snowden: Saving Us From the United Stasi of America". www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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• I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others. So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy.

  Tim Cook

  Struggle, Gay, Sacrifice

  "Tim Cook Speaks Up" by Tim Cook, www.bloomberg.com. October 30, 2014.

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• Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it's also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy.

  Bill Keller

  Thinking, Treasure, Internet

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• Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives.

  Michael Eisner

  Law, Obtaining, Objectives

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• It's the off-the-court spotlight in terms of having people look at you in terms of analyzing every little thing you do in your life, or having less privacy in your day-to-day activities, that's an area I need to get more accustomed to.

  Jeremy Lin

  People, Needs, Looks

  "Interview: Jeremy Lin on Embracing 'Linsanity' Spotlight, Where God Wants Him to Be". Interview with Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. October 2, 2013.

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• Privacy is a fundamental human need.

  Bruce Schneier

  Needs, Fundamentals, Humans

  "Data and Goliath: Privacy Expert Explains the Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World". Interview with Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, www.democracynow.org. March 13, 2015.

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