Privacy Quotes

• 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.

  

  Daniel J. Solove
  • Rarely
  • Usually
  • Dissolving

• I like to keep some privacy, be a normal person.

  

  Judith Faulkner
  • Person
  • Normal
  • Privacy

• It certainly woke me up to how vulnerable we all are. I think I was much more cavalier about it before I started working on the movie [Edward Snowden], and then the more I read the documents themselves and saw just how sweeping and indiscriminate the intrusions into our privacy have been, it made me more aware.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Movie

• It's very counterintuitive to boil down something so personal, something that requires privacy. All of a sudden, you open it up to the world and put it in a context where you could easily trivialize what you've done. If people sense that discomfort, they're not wrong.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Giving
  • Powerful
  • Reason

• We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Desire

• Most interviewers probe and pry into your personal life, and I just don’t like it. I respect everyone’s right to privacy, and I feel mine should be respected, too.

  

  Jennifer Jones
  • Respect
  • Personal Life
  • Interviewers Probe

• Even if you can't sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Home
  • Musical
  • Privacy

• You have privacy if you retain the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.

  

  Dan Geer
  • Privacy
  • Retain
  • Misrepresent

• I'd like to do a song that I wrote today about our government's increasing infringement on our right to privacy, but the lyrics mysteriously disappeared from my guitar case.

  

  Dan Piraro
  • Song
  • Government
  • Disappeared

• What we've begun to do is discuss the issue, the constitutional issues around that idea, again the privacy issue, which may not be unconstitutional but may pertain to our unique sense of privacy in the United States.

  

  Chris Asplen
  • United States
  • Privacy

• I would like people to be more aware of the fact that ultimately we are paying for things, and it's not just as privacy advocates point out that we're paying with our time and our data. We're also paying with money, because the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on advertising is just factored into the cost of the goods that we buy. It's all coming out of our pocket, just in a really roundabout way.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • People
  • Advertising
  • Billions

• This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in the wake of 9/11. Television promotes the world as a scary place for the United States and this justifies peeling away every element of privacy we had before. The media is monopolized so we don't even hear a lot of dissent about this new era.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • World
  • Age
  • Speak

• A man's home is no longer his castle; it is no longer a place away from urgent tasks because the telephone breaches the walls with imperious demands.

  

  Charles Hummel
  • Home
  • Demand
  • Tasks

• The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.

  

  Frank Church
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Dictator

• It has been more than 60 years since the constitution was put in place. There are provisions in the constitution that no longer suit the times. Since the constitution was promulgated, we've seen the emergence of new values, such as privacy, the environment and so on, which need to be incorporated.

  

  Shinzo Abe
  • Environment
  • Needs
  • Values

• Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.

  

  Sarah Chalke
  • Human
  • Privacy
  • Anonymity

• One good thing about punctuality is that it's a sure way to help you enjoy a few minutes of privacy.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • Help
  • Way
  • Minutes

• 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
  • Humans
  • Shows
  • Conditions

• ...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.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Privacy
  • Computers
  • Invasions

• I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at all - no more than any other child who read a lot of books. I began to write fiction and poetry when I first had a room that was truly my own with a door that shut and some measure, however fragile, of privacy.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Poetry
  • Door
  • Writer

• You already have zero privacy - get over it.

  

  Scott McNealy
  • Privacy

• Privacy isn't dead, although it is fashionable for digerati to say so.

  

  Andrew Curry
  • Dead
  • Privacy
  • Fashionable

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

  

  William O. Douglas
  • School
  • Political
  • Party

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