Privacy Quotes - Page 9

• Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of these drugs has led the police to resort to methods of detection and surveillance that intrude upon our privacy, including illegal search, eavesdropping, and entrapment. Indeed, the successful prosecution of such cases often requires police infringement of the constitutional protections that safeguard the privacy of individuals.

  John Kaplan

  Successful, Police, Drug

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• If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

  Eleanor Clift

  Hypocrisy, Ends, Kitties

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• This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.

  Peter Ustinov

  Funny, Country, Humor

  Peter Ustinov (2002). “Romanoff and Juliet”, p.22, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations of women... All women learn in childhood that women as a sex are men's prey.

  Marilyn French

  Sex, Eye, Home

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• The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Erosion, Self, Goal

  Evgeny Morozov (2014). “To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism”, p.346, PublicAffairs

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• At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.

  Bill Bruford

  People, Want, Ends

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• In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those who live in rackety developments can never hope to be. Not even the lust of a Lord Byron could survive the fact of Levittown.

  Gore Vidal

  Doors, House, Lust

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• I will always fight for a woman's right to choose and the right to privacy. Reproductive issues are medical related issues and they should be kept private between a woman and her doctor.

  Alma Adams

  Fighting, Doctors, Issues

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• I have no privacy anymore.

  Felix Baumgartner

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• The thing that is most interesting about people is the way they are when no one is looking at them or the way they are when they are in private.

  Suzanne Vega

  People, Interesting, Way

  Suzanne Vega (1999). “The passionate eye: the collected writing of Suzanne Vega”, Avon Books

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• Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Money, Mean, Government

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• I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.

  Bess Myerson

  People, Want, Clean

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• I'm way bigger than people think I am. I'm way bigger. I've been underrated all my life, and that's fine. I have privacy. I can walk the street without being hassled. I can be a regular guy. The price to give that up is so horrible. When you become a part of the hysteria - it's not completely in my hands - you have to hide.

  Rutger Hauer

  Thinking, Hands, Hysteria

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• I do mind some of the intrusions on privacy.

  Mary Archer

  Mind, Intrusion

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• I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.

  Russell Brand

  Writing, Thinking, Meaningless Things

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• If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things.

  Saffron Burrows

  People, Important, Desire

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• I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.

  Bram Cohen

  Technology, Rights, Political

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• The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

  Fred Wilson

  Jobs, Successful, Best Job

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• It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.

  Shaun White

  Hard

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• I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.

  Lech Walesa

  Believe, I Believe, Violation

  "Lech Walesa: Tech Freedom Fighter". Interview with Julia Scheeres, www.wired.com. June 19, 2002.

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• He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Distance, Struggle, Simple

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (Fitzgerald’s Greatest Short Stories): A Collection of short stories from the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.169, e-artnow

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• I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Death, Home, Practice

  "1984: Spring". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1984.

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• The trouble with having a body is that people know it's where you hang out and you don't get any privacy.

  Robert Breault

  People, Body, Trouble

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• I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.

  Kajol

  Believe, Thinking, Office

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• Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private.

  George Will

  People, Leaving, Bundles

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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