Privacy Quotes

We do need to rethink privacy. I think we need to fall back on (former Supreme Court Justice) Felix Frankfurter's definition of privacy which is, "Privacy is the right to be left alone."

...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.

The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system.

The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.

At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.

I think that you sign a sort of unwritten contract when you become a public figure, when you become an actor, that you're sacrificing a certain amount of privacy and parts of your life change.

The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

If you go into any department store these days, your picture is probably taken 30 times. In London there are 500,000 cameras in public spaces. You have no expectation of privacy in public spaces.

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

People should be allowed to do whatever they want in the privacy of their own home or their own hotel room.

The only thing privacy laws accomplish is making the bugs smaller.

My love's manners in bed are not to be discussed by me

It makes me feel like working non-stop: at least, on sets, the level of security gives me a bit of privacy. It's a relief.

Faria Alam whined about the invasion of her privacy in yet another lucrative interview earlier this week. There is very good money to be made out of whining about the invasion of your privacy.

What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.

I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.

There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.

Privacy IS freedom. Leave us alone!

When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.

People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.

I believe in people living their lives and having privacy.

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

I don't think when people sign up for a life of doing something they love to do they should have to sign up for a complete loss of privacy. I understand a little loss of privacy coming with the job.

You can keep your privacy in the world by keeping your product, not your personality, the star.

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.

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

If the idea that my safety can only be enhanced by putting other people's privacy and safety in danger, then I don't want to be more safe.

Privacy I think gets invaded when you start being honest.

it’s awful. No privacy, no secrets. Everything you’re ashamed of, laid out for everyone to see.

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.

The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.

I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.

If those of us in positions of responsibility fail to do everything in our power to protect the right of privacy, we risk something far more valuable than money. We risk our way of life.

I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive.

When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But also the fundamental right to privacy.

I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy.

Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.

In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.

Today we all give all our data away all day long while aiming to maintaining our privacy.

The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.

Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.

There's no privacy for the violently dead.

The more I'm let alone and not worried the better I can function.

Privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel?*Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else’s mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

We need to have a measure of love and freedom at all times, even with the ones we love much in our lives.