Privacy Quotes - Page 27

• I saw a few lines from a few, there were hundreds of them, all [Adolf Hitler] letters and [Eva Braun] replies written on carbon paper. I just saw that her letters to him were lengthy, his were much shorter. I wouldn't intrude on their privacy and I had given her my word.

  Gretl Braun

  Paper, Lines, Letters

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• I think individuals have a right to privacy, but that ought to include the right to prevent private institutions from monitoring what you do and building up a personal profile for you so that they can direct you in particular ways by their effective control over the internet, and that doesn't happen of course.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Building Up, Way

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• I don't put pictures of my children on, rarely, I think I've done it twice? I'm thoughtful about that, because I don't think you can get it back, and I don't think it's fair to people to try to convey a desire to maintain some privacy and then share pictures and expect that somebody else won't want the same ability.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Children, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Sometimes people who have their lives played out in public don't feel they have the privacy to continually journey within. I did, and that's why I have longevity.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Journey, People, Sometimes

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• There's a million more pros than cons, for sure. Obviously, the privacy thing is a little different. It's not normal to wake up and have 12 paparazzi cars waiting outside to follow you to Starbucks in the morning. But, there's a lot more pros, and I'm willing to put up with those cons, for sure.

  Taylor Lautner

  Morning, Car, Waiting

  "Taylor Lautner Video Interview THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE; Also Talks BREAKING DAWN, ABDUCTION, and STRETCH ARMSTRONG". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 12, 2010.

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• There is a solitude of space.
  A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Space, Sea, Soul

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1977, Delphi Classics

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• Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.

  John Marshall Harlan II

  Justice, Groups, May

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• I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

  Todd Solondz

  Nice, Mean, Loss

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• Passion is what you would do if you got to choose. It's what you think about doing in the privacy of your own mind, without ear of dismissal or mockery.

  Urijah Faber

  Passion, Thinking, Mma

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• Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could be assured of complete privacy, we agreed that we never would look at the marked-off zones, that they would be nonexistent territories in the apartment in which one could temporarily cease to exist.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Writing, Grandfather, Would Be

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• Most Americans want a sense of privacy. A lot of us don't realize how much of our privacy we're exposing by the internet.

  Patrick Leahy

  Want, Realizing, Internet

  "Sen. Patrick Leahy: 'Our Privacy Is Part Of Our Security'". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. June 3, 2015.

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• Morality is a private and costly luxury.

  Henry Adams

  Luxury, Ethics, Morality

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 22

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• Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

  George Orwell

  Love And Friendship, Tragedy, Ancient

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Lying, Hands, Bikinis

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little interests and stewing in its own little privacy - it's the most repulsive thing in the world. One's got to get rid of the exclusiveness of married love.

  Susan Sontag

  Love, Couple, Hunting

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.190, Macmillan

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• My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

  Susan Sontag

  Emotional, Needs, Passionate

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.174, Macmillan

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• Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Reality, Battle, Wages

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• Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1122, Library of America

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• Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Children, Ambition, Twenties

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• The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.

  Frank Church

  Fighting, Agency, People

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• if I believed that the choice lay between a sacrifice of the completest order of biography and that of the inviolability of private epistolary correspondence, I could not hesitate for a moment. I would keep the old and precious privacy,-the inestimable right of every one who has a friend and can write to him, - I would keep our written confidence from being made biographical material, as anxiously as I would keep our spoken conversation from being noted down for the good of society.

  Harriet Martineau

  Writing, Sacrifice, Order

  Harriet Martineau (1845). “Life in the Sick-room: Essays”, p.92

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• Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Gentleman, Honor

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• When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.

  Princess Margaret

  Growing Up, Goldfish, My Sister

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

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• Given the scope of these programs, it's understandable that many would be concerned about issues related to privacy. But what's difficult to understand is the motivation of somebody who intentionally would seek to warn the nation's enemies of lawful programs created to protect the American people. And I hope that he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

  Mitch McConnell

  Motivation, Law, Nsa

  "Earlier Denials Put Intelligence Chief in Awkward Position". Statement to the Press, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• One of the things we're going to have to discuss and debate is how are we striking this balance between the need to keep the American people safe and our concerns about privacy. Because there are some trade-offs involved. I welcome this debate, and I think it's healthy for our democracy.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Nsa, People

  "Around The World" with Michael Holmes, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2013.

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