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Privacy Quotes

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"There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing."
Herbert Hoover
"There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing."
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"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
"If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion."
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"I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on."
Roger Maris
"I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on."
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"I wish they'd shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans."
Richie Allen
"I wish they'd shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans."
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"The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation."
Angela Carter
"The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation."
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"When I go to the bathrooms, I cannot take off my pants as before; because there is a light continuously blinking like a camera, everyone says it is just an environmental friendly lighting. Well, I cannot really trust it and I am not taking the risk of circulating my naked photos around."
M.F. Moonzajer
"When I go to the bathrooms, I cannot take off my pants as before; because there is a light continuously blinking like a camera, everyone says it is just an environmental friendly lighting. Well, I cannot really trust it and I am not taking the risk of circulating my naked photos around."
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"I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl."
Princess Margaret
"I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl."
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"Gentlemen don't read each other's mail."
Henry L. Stimson
"Gentlemen don't read each other's mail."
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"I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all."
Barbra Streisand
"I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all."
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"Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy."
Sarah Chalke
"Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy."
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"I did not have a reputation to defend."
Roman Polanski
"I did not have a reputation to defend."
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"Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files."
Louis Stokes
"Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files."
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"You already have zero privacy - get over it."
Scott McNealy
"You already have zero privacy - get over it."
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"Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite."
Marlon Brando
"Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite."
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"When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often."
Steve Kanaly
"When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often."
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"Stay behind the scene; then you will have more freedom to work, more freedom to think and more freedom to act!"
Mehmet Murat ildan
"Stay behind the scene; then you will have more freedom to work, more freedom to think and more freedom to act!"
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"Publication is a self-invasion of privacy."
Marshall McLuhan
"Publication is a self-invasion of privacy."
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"Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary."
Margaret Cho
"Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary."
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"Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?"
Kate Millett
"Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?"
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"I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad."
Larry Niven
"I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad."
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"Sometimes some questions... shouldn't been answered... sometimes some stuff should be kept private... sometimes some people should just exist in specific places..."
Deyth Banger
"Sometimes some questions... shouldn't been answered... sometimes some stuff should be kept private... sometimes some people should just exist in specific places..."
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"All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing."
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
"All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing."
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"If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears."
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"I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened."
Jock Sturges
"I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened."
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"It can feel like an invasion of privacy, involving an employer in a personal matter."
Frank Murphy
"It can feel like an invasion of privacy, involving an employer in a personal matter."
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"So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public."
Marquis de Sade
"So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public."
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"Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can."
Lisa Bonet
"Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can."
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"It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true."
Dirk Bogarde
"It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true."
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"You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kid's face? OK with them. And I'm not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for."
Bill O'Reilly
"You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kid's face? OK with them. And I'm not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for."
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"If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself."
George Orwell
"If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself."
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"The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist."
Marshall McLuhan
"The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist."
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"I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test."
Patricia Hewitt
"I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test."
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"Even rock stars are entitled to privacy."
Michael Novak
"Even rock stars are entitled to privacy."
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"The most sacred thing is to be able to shut your own door."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The most sacred thing is to be able to shut your own door."
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"It's quite enough to have a secret. Anything more would be greedy."
Patrick Rothfuss
"It's quite enough to have a secret. Anything more would be greedy."
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."
Orson Scott Card
"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."
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"That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the end of his privacy.. And that was the end of his secret."
Mitch Albom
"That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the end of his privacy.. And that was the end of his secret."
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"I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip."
Kate Adie
"I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip."
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"The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera."
Jodi Picoult
"The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera."
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"First law of pleasurable love-making in the long run, is that you don't keep naked pictures of your partner on your phone."
Abhijit Naskar
"First law of pleasurable love-making in the long run, is that you don't keep naked pictures of your partner on your phone."
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"Privacy seems not an illusion for those who want to believe in secrecy principle."
Toba Beta
"Privacy seems not an illusion for those who want to believe in secrecy principle."
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"I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not want them challenged."
George R. R. Martin
"I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not want them challenged."
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"I believe in a zone of privacy."
Hillary Clinton
"I believe in a zone of privacy."
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"Questions about her feelings, about what has been or might be going on in her soul are non of my business; they are the business of her conscience and belong to religion."
Leo Tolstoy
"Questions about her feelings, about what has been or might be going on in her soul are non of my business; they are the business of her conscience and belong to religion."
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