Privacy Quotes - Page 29

• There's no privacy for the violently dead.

  Zelda Popkin

  Death

  Zelda Popkin (1995). “Time Off for Murder”, p.88, Bitingduck Press LLC

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• Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ignorance, Differences, Mind

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

  Aristotle

  Single, Men, Worst Enemy

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• If you look at the record and the enviable record which Sandra Day O'Connor has written, you find she was the fifth and decisive vote to safeguard Americans' right to privacy, to require our courtrooms to grant access to the disabled, to allow the federal government to pass laws to protect the environment, to preserve the right of universities to use affirmative action, to ban the execution of children in America.

  Dick Durbin

  Children, Law, America

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Jealous, Writing, Autobiography

  Nadine Gordimer (1995). “Writing and Being”, p.115, Harvard University Press

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• A crucial question is how to balance surveillance with privacy and keeping Americans safe.

  Dana Bash

  Balance, Safe, Surveillance

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.

  Jewel

  Writing, Feelings, Secret

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  God, Nature, Freedom

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has been a guardian of the protections the Constitution provides the American people. She's come to provide balance and a check on government intrusion into our personal privacy and freedoms.

  Patrick Leahy

  Government, Justice, People

  "The Situation: Monday, January 9". The Samuel Alito Hearings, transcripts.cnn.com. January 9, 2006.

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• In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of these have found a loving home in my soul.

  Luis Barragan

  Inspiration, Home, Silence

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• For 70 years there's been a consensus among scholars and the American people on a reading to the Constitution that protects the right of privacy, the autonomy of individuals, while at the same time empowering the federal government to protect the less powerful.

  Joe Biden

  Powerful, Reading, Government

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• In decision after decision on the bench, Judge [Samuel] Alito has excused abusive actions by the authorities that intrude on the personal privacy and freedoms of average Americans.

  Edward Kennedy

  Average, Judging, Decision

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd expect Comfort.

  George Mason

  Retirement, Children, Comfort

  Letter to a member of the Brent family, October 2, 1778.

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• The right to privacy... is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Pregnancy, Abortion Laws, Decision

  "Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113". The U.S. Supreme Court case No. 70-18, supreme.justia.com. January 22, 1973.

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• It has been more than 60 years since the constitution was put in place. There are provisions in the constitution that no longer suit the times. Since the constitution was promulgated, we've seen the emergence of new values, such as privacy, the environment and so on, which need to be incorporated.

  Shinzo Abe

  Years, Suits, Needs

  "U.S. 'only indispensable alliance'". Interview with Lally Weymouth, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 23, 2007.

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• A true community consists of individuals - not mere species members, not couples - respecting each others individuality and privacy while at the same time interacting with each other mentally and emotionally - free spirits in free relation to each other - and co-operating with each other to achieve common ends. Traditionalists say the basic unit of "society" is the family; "hippies" say the tribe; noone says the individual.

  Valerie Solanas

  Couple, Hippie, Community

  "SCUM Manifesto". P. 7, 1967.

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• I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Believe, Thinking

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• Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Solitude, Ferrets

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• Writing the novel felt so private to me! I think publishing a novel is quite public and exposing, and what's a little frightening to me right now is the fact that it feels so entirely opposed to the privacy that is writing.

  Garth Greenwell

  Writing, Thinking, Littles

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In a democracy it is ultimately for us, the citizens, to judge where to place the balance between security and privacy, safety and liberty. It's our lives and liberties that are threatened, not only by terrorism but also by massive depredations of our privacy in the name of counter-terrorism. If those companies from which governments actually take most of our intimate details want to show that they are still on the side of the angels, they had better join this struggle for transparency too.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Struggle, Angel, Names

  "If Big Brother came back, he'd be a public-private partnership". www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.

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• Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered? True gardeners, with their peerless taste, dexterity and inspired planting, never stop . . . To sit is almost an offence, a sign of depravity and an outrage towards every felicitous refinement that has gone into making a garden.

  Mirabel Osler

  Garden, Benches, Taste

  "The garden bench". Book by Mirabel Osler, 1991.

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• I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high school teaching - and I do enjoy it, at least sometimes. But I find it incredibly anxiety-producing and exhausting. Privacy is more congenial, and I go a little crazy if I can't spend a big chunk of every day, or almost every day, alone. Certainly I have to be alone to write.

  Garth Greenwell

  Crazy, Teaching, Reading

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Well, the fact is, we can never know what people do in the privacy of their own rooms. The door is closed. The blinds are drawn. We don't know. I leave it up to the reader. But there's no doubt in my mind that they loved each other, and this was an ardent, loving relationship between two adult women.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Doors, Two, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Look, if I were running the FBI, you know, I probably would want to have backdoors as well, so I'm sympathetic to the director's view. But there is risk if you put that backdoor in. There's no question you enhance the risk, number one. Number two, there are the privacy implications that are of concern to parties.

  Rod Beckstrom

  Running, Party, Views

  "The Cybersecurity Argument For And Against Device Encryption". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• If it wasn't for this person's privacy, I'd be able to talk pretty freely about this subject on a personal level. The record's about not her. It's about my struggles through years of dealing with the aftermath of lost love and longing and just mediocrity and just bad news, like life stuff. And in the [record], where the title comes from, the lyrics are actually a conversation between me and another girl, not this Emma character.

  Justin Vernon

  Girl, Lost Love, Struggle

  Source: pitchfork.com

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