Privacy Quotes - Page 34

• I know I can't dance. I am the worst dancer. I have no rhythm. I just do step-and-snap. I love it in the privacy of my own home and every once in a while at a club. But singing and dancing are my two greatest fears.

  Hope Solo

  Home, Greatest Fear, Two

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• Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Thinking, Thoughtful

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• Perhaps Americans should recognize that if they want to keep their privacy, they should ask the federal government to do only the things that the Constitution allows.

  Dave Kopel

  Government, Want, Constitution

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• When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.

  Florence King

  Women, Mean, Rights

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• I love France. The French respect your privacy.

  Margaux Hemingway

  France

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• We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back.

  Edward Snowden

  Asks

  "Surveillance and Its Discontents: A Conversation Across Cyberspace with Edward Snowden and John Perry Barlow". techpresident.com. June 12, 2014.

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  It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Patriotic, Independent

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• There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.

  Rand Paul

  Suffering, Liberty, Complacency

  FaceBook post by Senator Rand Paul from May 23, 2015

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• I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Nsa, People

  "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations". Article by Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Even worse than seeing women's privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy.

  Emma Watson

  Reading, Media, Empathy

  Twitter post from Sep 01, 2014

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• Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state.

  Edward Snowden

  Sacrifice, Surveillance State, Talking

  "Ex-CIA Worker Edward Snowden Says He Leaked Surveillance Data" by Anugrah Kumar, www.christianpost.com. June 10, 2013.

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• TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.

  John Poindexter

  Real, Data, Issues

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• Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.

  Tim Cook

  Fall, House, Important

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

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• Family life is an encroachment on private life.

  Karl Kraus

  Life, Family, Encroachment

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self.

  Kate Millett

  America, Self, Paper

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.83, University of Illinois Press

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• Everyone goes through their own journey. Sometimes things can get hurtful. But sometimes too much intrusion of privacy can get to you, but I know that this is something that you cannot avoid. You know, being a woman, there have to be lines drawn somewhere. But I am the kind who accepts that this is my journey and I have to go through some amount of hurt.

  Katrina Kaif

  Hurt, Journey, Lines

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• I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive.

  Tim Cook

  Philosophy, Thinking, Government

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

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• I repeat to you-my own view is, is that if a State-if people decide to-what they do in the privacy of their house, consenting adults should be able to do. This is America. It's a free society, but it doesn't mean we have to redefine traditional marriage.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Gay, Views

  George W. Bush “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004”, Government Printing Office

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• Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun.

  Pete Cashmore

  Gun, Media, Smoking

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• The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.

  Reid Hoffman

  Issues, People, Social Media

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• I must admit, the constant invasion of privacy was becoming a real concern. Ive been asked for autographs while Ive been doing laps in the pool and even in the toilet!

  Rick Astley

  Real, Lap, Toilets

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• I'm famous, so I can't, like, really walk around in malls and stuff like that. I don't really have as much privacy.

  Avril Lavigne

  Stuff, Malls, Walks

  "Avril Lavigne: Teen rocker of 2002". Interview with Sasha Rionda, edition.cnn.com. December 27, 2002.

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• People will always want intimacy with one chosen person and you cannot have intimacy without privacy, which is why couples draw circles of privacy around themselves. They demand that family, neighbors and the law respect their union, and that is why we have marriage.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Couple, Law, Circles

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• Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a direct violation of the Constitutions of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Age. The Teaching of Reading is equally a crime against Privacy and Personhood. One to five years on each count.

  Walter Tevis

  Teaching, Reading, Mean

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• The only thing privacy laws accomplish is making the bugs smaller.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Law, Bugs, Accomplish

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