Privacy Quotes

We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about.

Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.

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

I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.

We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

My guideline has always been to avoid a focus on me personally. Not because of any deep, dark secrets. Rather just a sense of privacy.

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

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

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

I'm addicted to silence and privacy; I wallow in it.

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

I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

I love digital, but the only problem is less intimacy. People look at the screen right away. Before, nobody saw the picture before you saw the final picture. There was more privacy in a way.

A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitutions protection of privacy.

Privacy is important. Anybody who doesn't think that, they're crap. But I know I'm going to lose some of that and that's something I'll have to deal with.

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.

But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.

Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

I look at Bill Clinton, the way I look at Bill Gates. As long as my Microsoft stock is going up, I don't care what Bill Gates does in the privacy of his own home.

Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.

Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.

Privacy is rarely lost in one fell swoop. It is usually eroded over time, little bits dissolving almost imperceptibly until we finally begin to notice how much is gone.

To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.

In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.

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.

At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.

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

Privacy is a fundamental human need.

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!

We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

You don't owe anybody the present other than yourself. Take time for you. Respect yourself and your privacy. Set boundaries.

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

Solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected him to mental pain and distress.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.