Privacy Quotes

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.

A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.

I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place

If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more

I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.

Privacy is a function of liberty.

If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

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.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

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.

Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.

This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we’re trying to protect.

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

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.

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

When you fall in love, you wanna share it with people but you know there are some things that you need to keep to yourself, 'cause privacy makes things last longer, I feel.

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.

Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.

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

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

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

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

I don't like to see teenage men wearing very tight jeans. The sight of an erection belongs in the privacy of the bedroom, living room, or kitchen floor.

When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.

I suppose sometimes the lack of privacy can be a little hard to deal with at times.

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

Our privacy is starting to be invaded and we can't get anything done. I'm happy with the fundraising but upset we don't have time to talk and meet with people.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.

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

I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.

After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.