Privacy Quotes - Page 7

• If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

  William J. Brennan

  Mean, Married, Individual

  "Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438". Writing for the court, 1972.

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• I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.

  Barbara Boxer

  Dream, Fighting, Thinking

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• If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.

  Jay Sekulow

  Abortion, Firsts, Becoming

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• The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Religious, Issues, Rights

  Terence McKenna (2010). “Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge”, p.255, Random House

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• I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety.

  John S. Pistole

  People, Safety, Balance

  John S. Pistole at Senate hearing on TSA, full-body scanners, www.cnet.com. November 16, 2010.

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• I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

  Halle Berry

  Real, Accepting, Downers

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• I got tired of everyone being in my way, so I had to kick them out to have my privacy.

  James Toney

  Motivation, Tired, Way

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• There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Bird, Grove

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.234

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• It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

  Barack Obama

  Zero, Important, Inconvenience

  Remarks on Health Care and Surveillance, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2013.

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• The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

  Kathy Bates

  People, Salary, Oscars

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

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• The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Giving Up, People, Safety

  "A Push for Surveillance Software". Interview with John Markoff, www.nytimes.com. February 28, 1994.

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• An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Honesty, People

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• We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Sheep, Two

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.62, Univ of California Press

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• Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside the marriage. Patriarchy has not disappeared; it has changed form. In the old form, women were forced to obey an overbearing husband in the privacy of an unjust marriage. In the new form, the working single mother is economically abandoned by her former husband and ignored by a patriarchal society at large.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Mother, Husband, Acceptance

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• Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

  Larry Wall

  Rooms, Infatuation, Shotguns

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• A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy; he will be silent on his more personal interests, or, if he must speak, will veil them under conventional forms.

  Walter Raleigh

  War, Jealous, Men

  "A Collection of Literary Essays".

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• The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to be morally good, but it is not considered moral if the highest values of a society are adherence to rules and traditional mores, the maintenance of hierarchical relationships, and absolute ideas of right and wrong. Any society based on the latter will find novels inherently immoral and subversive.

  Jane Smiley

  Ideas, Tolerance, Individuality

  Jane Smiley (2014). “Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.129, Faber & Faber

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• The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.

  Denis Waitley

  Mind, Important, Lectures

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• It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

  Michael Hutchence

  Self, Publicity, Hell

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self, with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Mean, Self

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• There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Business, Loss, Government

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• Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

  Ayn Rand

  Progress Of Society, Civilization, Political

  The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 18 (1943)

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• The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Evil, Temptation, Whim

  Hilaire Belloc (1951). “Hilaire Belloc: an anthology of his prose and verse”

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• Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion.

  Mikko Hypponen

  Motivation, Inspiration, Internet

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• You can keep your privacy in the world by keeping your product, not your personality, the star.

  Sarah Lacy

  Stars, Personality, World

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