PRIVACY QUOTES
quotations about privacy
No, solitude did not trouble her. She could spend long minutes gazing out the window, hours listening to the BBC on the public radio station. She relished the very texture of her privacy, its depth of space and freedom, much of an entire day hers alone.
DAPHNE KALOTAY
Russian Winter
Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
LOUIS KRONENBERGER
The Cart and the Horse
A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that's a problem because privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.
EDWARD SNOWDEN
"Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission's accomplished", Washington Post, December 23, 2013
Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
EDWARD SNOWDEN
Reddit, May 21, 2015
Privacy is a hot-button issue. There is a raging war today for the personal data of the average consumer, and a Maginot line has been clearly drawn by the antagonists. On one side are marketers, advertisers, and Internet and data companies, who want unfettered access to as much personal information as possible. On the other side are consumer advocates, privacy purists and think tanks that want to limit or disallow commercial access to personal data, altogether. In the middle are consumers, who mostly want to keep getting as much free online stuff as possible, but who are clueless about the consequences.
ADONIS HOFFMAN
"On data privacy, Congress and agencies are both baffled", The Hill, May 24, 2016
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER
Life As We Knew It
Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don't find meaning but 'steal' some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn't make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.
ALBERT CAMUS
Notebooks 1951-1959
Privacy is only really dead if we stop getting angry about the endless attacks on it.
OLIVER SMITH
"Is privacy dead? Not even MPs are safe from spies", The Memo, June 3, 2016
When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but that the world is turning into a concentration camp?
MILAN KUNDERA
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
The Dispossessed
In any war there are casualties, and it's looking increasingly like privacy is the collateral damage of this one. With the war on terror being, let's face it, pretty much an open-ended affair, it would seem likely that the damage being inflicted upon our privacy expectations won't heal for the foreseeable future.
DAVEY WINDER
"Privacy is the collateral damage in our war on terror", IT Pro, May 23, 2016
Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
KATE MILLET
speech, March 22, 1975
But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER
The King of Attolia
I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy -- to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
The Waves
There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and all that...but I'm not the book, see? I'm the guy who wrote it, but I don't want them to come up and throw roses on me or anything. I want them to let me breathe.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Interview Magazine, September 1987
Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.
JONATHAN FRANZEN
The Corrections
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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Culture", The Conduct of Life
But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and their relatives too. Eat together and share everything, talk about everything. Privacy make people lonely. Privacy make family fallen apart.
XIAOLU GUO
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Friends don't spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
STEPHEN KING
Hearts in Atlantis
You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.
SCOTT MCNEALY
"Sun on Privacy: 'Get Over It'", Wired, January 26, 1999