Privacy Quotes - Page 25

• A man's home is no longer his castle; it is no longer a place away from urgent tasks because the telephone breaches the walls with imperious demands.

  Charles Hummel

  Wall, Home, Men

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• You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Government, Data, Games

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• Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.

  Barbara Mertz

  Children, Feels, Humans

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• One good thing about punctuality is that it's a sure way to help you enjoy a few minutes of privacy.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Way, Helping, Punctuality

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• I suppose the Green Party doesn't care for the anti-civil libertarian provisions of the notoriously named Patriot Act, invading privacy, and being able to search your home, and not tell you for 72 hours.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Home, Green

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.

  Mason Cooley

  Cities, Desert, Caves

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• The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Solitude, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.398

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• There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Space, Solitude, Horizon

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.81, 谷月社

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• I think we left out one of the really important elements contributing to the dynamism of society, and that is the right to privacy. I mean something more than the right to shave in private. I mean the right to join what I want to join, to do what I want to do, or not to do what I might do without giving anyone a reason, either in advance or afterwards. That does not mean that I am seeking for irresponsibility socially.

  Chester Barnard

  Mean, Thinking, Rights

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• The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with the gravel, sits afar and retired, off the road, hangs out no sign of refreshment for man and beast, but says, by all possible hints and signs, I wish to be alone,--good-by,--fare-well. But the Landlord can afford to live without privacy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Men, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1020, Delphi Classics

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• I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem to assume that there will be large, monolithic bureaucracies...that are capable of harnessing computers for one-way surveillance of an unsuspecting populace. I've come to feel that computation just doesn't work that way. Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire.

  Bruce Sterling

  Fire, Organization, Worry

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• It seems to me that everybody who's a success has made a decision to put themselves in a situation that eats away at their privacy. Their hours just don't end. Now, with actors it's extreme, because their privacy is almost nonexistent.

  Peter Stone

  Decision, Actors, Hours

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Benefits, Way, I've Learned

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• Privacy I think gets invaded when you start being honest.

  SonReal

  Thinking, Honest, Being Honest

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.

  William O. Douglas

  Home, Police, Mind

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• I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Morality, Apocalypse, Conversation

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• In the space shuttle program, where we had males and females, I can tell you that nobody was doing that [sex] because there's absolutely no privacy. The only privacy would have been in the air lock, but everybody would know what you were doing. You're not out there doing a spacewalk. There's no reason to be in there.

  Mike Mullane

  Sex, Air, Space

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• I think most interesting people are socially awkward even if they're able to hide it most of the time. If Henry Darger hadn't been a shut-in would we love him so much? Any act that we do in private is amazing and profound because it is private. You don't have to worry about being socially awkward in the privacy of your own home... well, unless I show up.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Home, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in the wake of 9/11. Television promotes the world as a scary place for the United States and this justifies peeling away every element of privacy we had before. The media is monopolized so we don't even hear a lot of dissent about this new era.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Media, Speaks Out, Scary

  "The Rumpus Interview With Sandra Cisneros". Interview with Olivia, therumpus.net. January 13, 2016.

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• Then President [Barack] Obama went on to argue that a citizen`s Second Amendment rights can be restricted without being infringed, just like any other rights. There are limits on your free speech and on your right to privacy. But he also made another nuanced Constitutional argument, that the rights enshrined in the Second Amendment must be balanced alongside the others rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Rights, Second Amendment, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It's the same thing in a way with privacy. You can say "I'm not doing anything wrong, therefore this doesn't concern me," but what does it mean about our society if we're all being watched and recorded? The personal experience - negotiating this as individuals - doesn't describe the social reality and the broader social costs.

  Astra Taylor

  Mean, Reality, Doe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.

  Coretta Scott King

  Democracy, Adults, Constitution

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• Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer

  Rand Paul

  Suffering, Liberty, Complacency

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• A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.

  Sven Birkerts

  Crush, Book, Self

  Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.189, Macmillan

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• If those of us in positions of responsibility fail to do everything in our power to protect the right of privacy, we risk something far more valuable than money. We risk our way of life.

  Tim Cook

  Responsibility, Technology, Giving

  "How Tim Cook's Stand Over Digital Privacy Could Define Apple's Future". "All Things Considered" with Laura Sydell, www.npr.org. February 25, 2016.

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