Privacy famous quotes
07-15-2025
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Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.
-- Alexander Theroux -
Privacy isn't dead, although it is fashionable for digerati to say so.
-- Andrew Curry -
But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.
-- Andrew Scott -
Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.
-- Andy Grove -
We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.
-- Andy Rooney -
Every CEO of a social network should be required to use the default privacy settings for all of their accounts on the service.
-- Anil Dash -
Personal privacy is a closely held American value.
-- Anna Eshoo -
I'm famous, so I can't, like, really walk around in malls and stuff like that. I don't really have as much privacy.
-- Avril Lavigne -
It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.
-- Barack Obama -
Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
-- Barbara Boxer -
I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.
-- Bess Myerson -
At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
-- Bill Bruford -
Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it's also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy.
-- Bill Keller -
We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.
-- Bill McCollum -
Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
-- Billy Graham -
After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.
-- Bob Dylan -
I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.
-- Bob Iger -
I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.
-- Brian K. Vaughan -
Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.
-- Bruce Sterling -
Where it gets clear for me about the privacy issue is with my kids because they didn't choose this kind of life. I'm an incredibly open person, though - I'll tell anyone anything.
-- Carrie-Anne Moss -
At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.
-- Cliff Stearns -
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
-- Cory Doctorow -
Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.
-- Craig Venter -
He always ran away from the battle with himself. Even in his own heart's privacy, he excused himself, saying, "If she hadn't said so-and-so, it would never have happened.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
You have privacy if you retain the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.
-- Dan Geer -
It is hard to violate somebody's privacy if the person is completely anonymous.
-- Dana Milbank -
I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.
-- Daniel Craig -
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 -
I've got nothing to hide and other misunderstandings of privacy
-- Daniel J. Solove -
Perhaps Americans should recognize that if they want to keep their privacy, they should ask the federal government to do only the things that the Constitution allows.
-- Dave Kopel -
Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.
-- David Duchovny -
Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.
-- David Duchovny -
I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.
-- David Schwimmer -
You don't owe anybody the present other than yourself. Take time for you. Respect yourself and your privacy. Set boundaries.
-- Demi Lovato -
It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.
-- Dirk Bogarde -
The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
-- Earl Warren -
We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
-- Edgar Bronfman, Jr. -
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
-- Edmund Leach -
We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back
-- Edward Snowden -
Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.
-- Edward V. Long -
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.
-- Eleanor Clift -
I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.
-- Emily Carr -
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
-- Eric Schmidt -
The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook's privacy bullying.
-- Evgeny Morozov -
I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.
-- Evgeny Morozov -
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.
-- Frances Farmer -
The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.
-- Fred Wilson -
Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.
-- Gary Kovacs -
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
-- George Eliot -
Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.
-- George Orwell -
Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.
-- George Steiner -
I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.
-- Giorgio Morandi -
The right to privacy...is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.
-- Harry A. Blackmun -
Privacy is like sleep - something you don't appreciate until you have to go without it.
-- Helen McCloy -
The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion - unless he happens to be an American, when his ignorance of good manners is indulged.
-- Henry Steele Commager -
Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.
-- Howard Berman -
It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
-- Isaac Asimov -
I sigh inside, so exhausted by these ugly questions, but when did a monster ever deserve its privacy?
-- Isaac Marion -
Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
-- Jackie Speier -
If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.
-- Jackie Speier -
I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.
-- James Douglas, Lord of Douglas -
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.
-- James L. Brooks -
Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.
-- Jaron Lanier -
Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.
-- Jay Roach -
I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.
-- Jeff Beck -
Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.
-- John Ashcroft -
The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.
-- John Perry Barlow -
We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.
-- John S. Pistole -
We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.
-- Jonathan Nolan -
The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.
-- Justin Timberlake -
Family life is an encroachment on private life.
-- Karl Kraus -
Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place
-- Kate Millett -
All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.
-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould -
Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements.
-- Katherine Neville -
What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?
-- Keith Ablow -
Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
-- Larry Flynt -
People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
-- Larry Flynt -
...It's important to distinguish between "worry versus harm" when it came to privacy online.
-- Larry Page -
For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.
-- Larry Page -
I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
-- Lech Walesa -
Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?
-- Linda Tripp -
Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can.
-- Lisa Bonet -
You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.
-- Lisa Kudrow -
Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
-- Louis Kronenberger -
Legislators need to support privacy to establish consumer confidence.
-- Marc Rotenberg -
Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.
-- Margaret Laurence -
I love France. The French respect your privacy.
-- Margaux Hemingway
