Privacy Quotes - Page 15

• They're hungry for something they know nothing about, but we, we know all too well that the price of fame is the loss of privacy.

  David Sedaris

  Funny, Loss, Hungry

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• If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.

  John Twelve Hawks

  Technology, Worry, Might

  John Twelve Hawks (2015). “Against Authority: Freedom and the Rise of the Surveillance States”, p.4, West 26th Street Press

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• I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation I need privacy--to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.

  Virginia Woolf

  Cat, Order, Waiting

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• I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds, gates, guards, all designed to ensure the family absolute privacy. And every newspaper in London carried headlines announcing PRINCESS ANNE HAS OVARIAN CYST REMOVED. I mean you're a young girl reared in heavily guarded seclusion and every beer drinker in every pub knows the precise state of your ovaries.

  Helene Hanff

  Girl, Princess, Eye

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• Being a scrub was undesirable and hard work, living in crowded conditions with no privacy and just being one of many. Undistinguishable.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Hard Work, Just Being, Crowded

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Inside: Inside Out\Outside In”, p.193, Harlequin

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• But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and their relatives too. Eat together and share everything, talk about everything. Privacy make people lonely. Privacy make family fallen apart.

  Xiaolu Guo

  Daughter, Lonely, Son

  "A Concise Chinese English Dictionary for Lovers". Book by Xiaolu Guo, 2007.

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• In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: all of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of our selves

  Susanna Kaysen

  Self, Liberty, Gone

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.94, Vintage

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• I sigh inside, so exhausted by these ugly questions, but when did a monster ever deserve its privacy?

  Isaac Marion

  Monsters, Ugly, Exhausted

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure.

  Ron Paul

  War, People, Liberty

  "Bush’s Wars". www.counterpunch.org. September 21, 2001.

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• The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

  Joan Didion

  America, Secret, Desire

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• Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn't dare to put yourself onstage.

  Clive Barnes

  Dance, Ballet, Athletic

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• The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen - a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a life.

  William O. Douglas

  Taken, Government, Secret

  "Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. December 12, 1966.

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• Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Writing, Secret

  Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.453, Courier Corporation

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• Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

  Horace

  Life

  "Epistles", I. 17. 10 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop with his own strength his own existence and that of his family, and to create for himself and his own an existence of just freedom, not only economic, but also political, cultural and religious.

  Pope Pius XII

  Religious, Determination, Freedom

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• All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.

  Sienna Miller

  Positive, Taken, Action

  "Sienna Miller: 'I've bought my freedom'" by Andrew Dickson, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2011.

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• If you want to observe anger in its entirety, you will have to observe it alone, in the privacy of your room. Then alone can you see it in its fullness, for then there are no limitations. This is why I advise the pillow meditation to certain people, so that they can observe their anger fully.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, People, Meditation

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• While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional costs of keeping a secret" until the truth is disclosed. Usually, secrecy involves lying. And lying is always the setting for potential betrayal and violation of trust.

  Bell Hooks

  Betrayal, Lying, Emotional

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• “Simon,” she whispered, vaguely surprised that she had just used his first name, for she had never used it even in the privacy of her thoughts. Moistening her dry lips, she tried once more, and to her astonishment, she did it again. “Simon…” “Yes?” A new tension had entered his long, hard body, and at the same time, his hand moved over the shape of her skull in the softest caress possible. “Please… take me to my room.” Hunt tilted her head back gently and regarded her with a sudden faint smile playing on his lips. “Sweetheart, I would take you to Timbuktu if you asked.“

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hands, Names, Skulls

  "Secrets of a Summer Night". Book by Lisa Kleypas, 2004.

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• He loves me, and I reward his love by forcing on him something he hates. In the evening, after we dance, he rarely returns to the throne; he dances with others or moves from place to place through the room. The court thinks he is trying to be gracious, sharing his attention. Only I see that he moves always to the empty spot and the court always moves after him. He is like a dog trying to escape his own tail. He indulged himself in one brief moment of privacy, and almost died of it. Relius, he hates being king.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Dog, Kings, Hate

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• I remember an era when you could get your nose sliced off for sticking it too far into another man's business. Now you can find out anything about anyone with the click of a button. There is no privacy and no consideration, and everyone is prying into things that aren't their affair. You can probably check on the intertube and find out what color underwear I have on today.

  Joe Hill

  Men, Color, Sticking It

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• But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Loneliness, Independence, Isolation

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• This may be invading her privacy but I was Death, dammit. I should get some privileges

  Abbi Glines

  May, Privilege, Should

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• There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Character, Secret

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• Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.

  Virginia Woolf

  Olivia, Chloe, May

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.106

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