Privacy Quotes - Page 3

• There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

  George Eliot

  Life, Literature, Determined

  'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 3

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• When the social network doesn't find it convenient to have privacy, we say, "Okay, social network, you don't want privacy, maybe we won't have it either." But we did this without having the conversation.

  Sherry Turkle

  Social Network, Okay

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

  May Sarton

  Fashion, What Matters, Trying

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.

  Michael Novak

  Stars, Rocks, Rock Star

  "Kid Rock Sues to Stop Sale of Sex Video", www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2006.

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• Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

  Roger Mudd

  Powerful, Believe, Journalist

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• Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

  Bruce Sterling

  Home, Ignorance, Literature

  "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

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• You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

  Johnny Depp

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

  Larry Page

  Thinking, Important, Term

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• It's so much unwanted interest in your privacy that you don't want to invite anymore.

  Natalie Portman

  Want, Interest, Invites

  "Natalie Portman talks directing her first movie and why you'll never see her on social media". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. August 17, 2016.

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• It can feel like an invasion of privacy, involving an employer in a personal matter.

  Frank Murphy

  Invasion, Matter, Employers

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• Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Law Courts, Government, Libertarian Party

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Peace, Freedom, War

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Home, Car, Form

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• I feel like the quality of privacy and respect of people's personal space has been completely disintegrated. You can ask to take the picture. I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture.

  Busta Rhymes

  Space, People, Quality

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

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• Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and constant inconvenience as the wrong people gain access to information, as one wastes time convincing the inquisitors that one is in fact innocent, or as one struggles to untangle the errors of the errant machine.

  Victor C. Ferkiss

  Struggle, Mean, Loss

  Victor C. Ferkiss (1969). “Technological Man: The Myth and the Reality”

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• The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with the symbols you are still private, you are still lonely, because you are not sure anyone will understand it except yourself. The ransom of privacy is that you are alone.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Lonely, Loneliness, Artist

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• If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I find it awful, and it makes me really nervous. It hasn't happened to me much, but when you have a taste of it, it's bitter.

  Ruth Negga

  People, Want, Awful

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• I believe strongly that we can protect our people without undermining our constitutional rights and I worry very, very much about the huge attacks on privacy that we have seen in recent years - both from the government and the private sector. I worry that we are moving toward an Orwellian society, and this is something I will oppose as vigorously as I can.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Moving, Rights

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 19, 2015.

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• I work out of silence, because silence makes up for my actual lack of working space. Silence substitutes for actual space, for psychological distance, for a sense of privacy and intactness. In this sense silence is absolutely necessary.

  Radka Donnell

  Distance, Space, Work Out

  Radka Donnell (1990). “Quilts as women's art: a quilt poetics”, Gallerie Pubns

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• We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.

  Roger Ebert

  Anchors, Important, Rooms

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• A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing so; only comparable power or anonymity can do that.

  Nick Harkaway

  Secret, Desire, Democracy

  Nick Harkaway (2012). “The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World”, p.145, Vintage

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• Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline."

  Jerome Lawrence

  Distance, Character, Men

  "Fictional character: Henry Drummond". "Inherit the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• I’m not so sure that the conventional wisdom makes any sense. Yes, it might be technically easy to track people and all that. But in the long-term I’m optimistic that we’ll see the pendulum swing back in the other direction towards more privacy.

  Rod Humble

  Optimistic, Swings, Long

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• Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.

  Margaret Laurence

  Privilege, Granted, Young

  1964 The Stone Angel, ch.1.

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