Privacy Quotes - Page 28

• I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, People, Understanding

  "Privacy Board To Scrutinize Surveillance Programs". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. July 9, 2013.

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• Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the intelligence community more transparent and accountable.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Nsa, Community, Ordinary

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• Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too. And the leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Phones

  President Obama’s speech on NSA reforms, www.washingtonpost.com. January 17, 2014.

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• I advocate for protecting the liberty of the net, and securing privacy. I argue against people who believe both are somehow given automatically. They're not.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Believe, People, Liberty

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• It's so hard, because everyone's got a camera-phone, and everyone wants to get their picture on the blogs. So they'll send anything that they have to the blogs. So you don't really get any privacy.

  Justin Bieber

  Phones, Cameras, Want

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game" by Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Children, Women, Home

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• Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy.

  Walter Benjamin

  Rotten, Mundane Life, Affair

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.484, Harvard University Press

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• What fun it is to generalize in the privacy of a note book. It is as I imagine waltzing on ice might be. A great delicious sweep in one direction, taking you your full strength, and then with no trouble at all, an equally delicious sweep in the opposite direction. My note book does not help me think, but it eases my crabbed heart.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Fun, Book, Heart

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• Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Night, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.199, Penguin

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• Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.

  Flann O'Brien

  Book, Eye, Expression

  Flann O'Brien (2000). “At Swim-two-birds”, p.5, Penguin UK

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• We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Important, May, Moments

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• I will no longer allow my obligation as a veteran to remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted by current or former politicians to justify our folly in Iraq, our morally dubious war on terror and our elimination of one's right to privacy.

  Harry Leslie Smith

  War, Iraq, Dubious

  "This year, I will wear a poppy for the last time" by Harry Leslie Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2013.

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• Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Advice, President, Needs

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1974”, p.390, Best Books on

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• And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Party, Host, Introvert

  The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)

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• The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

  Tiger Woods

  Matter, Virtue, Intimate

  Tiger Woods' Car Crash Statement, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2009.

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• The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook's privacy bullying.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Bullying, Bigger, Site

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• Freedom was the price of privacy.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.47, Vintage

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• I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.

  Caitlin Moran

  Hate, Ideas, Tabloids

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• I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Government, Want, My Own

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• I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Thinking, Law, People

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• If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

  John Cusack

  Movie, Nice, Reading

  "John Cusack: 'I like to take risks'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2009.

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• It is hard to violate somebody's privacy if the person is completely anonymous.

  Dana Milbank

  Persons, Hard, Ifs

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• Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Hard, Hard Things

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• We've come to expect so little from online privacy measures that public displays of concern about the matter are more or less for show. Being devastated to discover you've been tagged in somebody else's photo has an air of the melodramatic about it at this point.

  Sloane Crosley

  Air, Littles, Matter

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• A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Fathers Day, Children

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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