PRIVACY QUOTES III

quotations about privacy

Privacy quote

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

ANTHONY BURGESS

Homage to Qwert Yuiop: Essays


But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.

JHUMPA LAHIRI

The Namesake


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 ... and the like.

WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS

Points of Rebellion


Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street; if thy public actions have a hundred witnesses, thy private have a thousand. The multitude looks but upon thy actions; thy conscience looks into them.

FRANCIS QUARLES

Enchiridion Institutions

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Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the cave, the tribal tepee, the pueblo, the community fortress, man emerged to build himself a house of his own with a shelter in it for himself and his diversions. Every age has seen it so. The poor might have to huddle together in cities for need's sake, and the frontiersman cling to his neighbors for the sake of protection. But in each civilization, as it advanced, those who could afford it chose the luxury of a withdrawing-place.

PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

"A Lost Privilege", The Province of the Heart

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There is no such thing as privacy anymore; there is secrecy.

RICH HERSH

attributed, Instagram


Private interests must yield to public good.

EDMUND GETTY

The Last King of Ulster


The empowerment given ordinary citizens by the social media is testing the limits of just how much personal privacy can be chipped away. The digital revolution is fuelling a competition that not long ago was the exclusive territory of the professional news media. And when it comes to being the first to report a story, "healthy competition" can turn nasty in a hurry.

EDITOR

The Nation, May 28, 2016


In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents.

JAMES MADISON

Letters and Other Writings of James Madison

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There is a privacy in every man's conduct that policy should teach him to retain.

NORMAN MACDONALD

attributed, Day's Collacon

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All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

KATHARINE FULLERTON GEROULD

Modes and Morals


Intimacy is an important part of a happy relationship, but so is a healthy respect for each other's privacy.

LESLIE BECKER-PHELPS

"How Much Privacy Is Good for a Relationship?", WebMD, June 1, 2016


In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

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There is a palpable sense that the dynamic of privacy has changed from one in which you are private by default, to one in which you are public by default, and private by effort.

LEE RAINIE

"Making Information Pay: Is Privacy Becoming a Commodity?", Publishers Weekly, May 27, 2016