Privacy Quotes

It is my conviction that movie stars are not entitled to any rights of privacy.

In decision after decision on the bench, Judge [Samuel] Alito has excused abusive actions by the authorities that intrude on the personal privacy and freedoms of average Americans.

Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the intelligence community more transparent and accountable.

There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.

There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them.

I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.

If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.

I have no privacy anymore.

I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den.

I don't tweet, I don't go on Facebook. I think there's too much information about all of us out there. I'm liking the idea of privacy more and more.

I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd expect Comfort.

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

I don't have Twitter or Facebook or MySpace or any of those things. I think there's a kind of risky thing privacy wise and I'm a private, guided person and don't want to get too open.

Privacy is like sleep - something you don't appreciate until you have to go without it.

Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.

To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.

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.

No one wants their personal emails made public, and I think most people understand that and respect that privacy.

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

I sigh inside, so exhausted by these ugly questions, but when did a monster ever deserve its privacy?

It's a magical way to spend a summer - privacy at sea, and fun and friends in port.

If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.

We all love privacy. We all care about public safety. And none of - at least people that I hang around with, none of us want back doors. We don't want access to devices built-in in some way.

I care a lot about privacy. I also care an awful lot about public safety. There continues to be a huge collision between those two things we care about.

Our need for public safety and our need for privacy are crashing into each other and we've got to sort that out.

I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

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

Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.

Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.

I hated the place (Hollywood), not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation.

Privacy is not for the passive.

I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.

I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan. ... They need to live their lives as well.

Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.

I fiercely protect my privacy. I just don't think it's everyone's business to know every little detail about my life. That's just the way I've handled myself.

When government gets between my lips and my stomach; I call that invasion of privacy!

Privacy is a bourgeois fantasy.

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.

It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.

Fame and success put tremendous demands on people. It robs them of their necessary privacy and anonymity. That's hard for even healthy people to deal with.

I think even celebrities deserve their privacy. I really do. It's sort of a hideous spectacle, the public feeding on all this information.

It's so hard, because everyone's got a camera-phone, and everyone wants to get their picture on the blogs. So they'll send anything that they have to the blogs. So you don't really get any privacy.

I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.

When I see the move of RFID into universities, it concerns me, ... It is sending a message that not only do we not have to worry about privacy but you can profit from it by a career perspective.

If I am going to be the future bloody Queen of England I'm going to wear that dress once because I'm giving up the rest of my life, all of my privacy. At least I can get a new dress every day!