Personal Privacy Quotes:

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

- Anton Chekhov

source: Anton Chekhov (2010). “Five Plays”, p.5, Stanford University Press

topic: Men, Civilization, Privacy, Personal Privacy

Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has been a guardian of the protections the Constitution provides the American people. She's come to provide balance and a check on government intrusion into our personal privacy and freedoms.

- Patrick Leahy

source: "The Situation: Monday, January 9". The Samuel Alito Hearings, transcripts.cnn.com. January 9, 2006.

topic: Government, Justice, People, Sandra Day O Connor, Personal Privacy

In decision after decision on the bench, Judge [Samuel] Alito has excused abusive actions by the authorities that intrude on the personal privacy and freedoms of average Americans.

- Edward Kennedy

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Average, Judging, Decision, Personal Privacy, Privacy And Freedom

There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas corpus during the Civil War, Alien and Sedition Acts in World War I, or Japanese internment camps in World War II, presidents have gone too far.

- Dick Durbin

source: U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

topic: Internment, Internment Camps, Habeas Corpus, Personal Privacy, During The Civil War

Personal privacy is a closely held American value.

- Anna Eshoo

source: "More Calif. hearings on AT&T/T-Mobile to come - DoD to unveil cyber strategy today - House E&C holds privacy hearing - House Dems not pleased with GOP spectrum bill" by Tony Romm, www.politico.com. July 14, 2011.

topic: Privacy, American Values, Values, Personal Privacy

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

- Louis J. Freeh

source: "A Push for Surveillance Software". Interview with John Markoff, www.nytimes.com. February 28, 1994.

topic: Giving Up, People, Safety, Safety And Security, Personal Privacy

With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy.

- Tom Udall

source: "Protecting Privacy at the Airport" by Tom Udall, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2011.

topic: Sacrifice, Technology, Airports, Personal Privacy, Airport Security

The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Independence, Progress, Honey, Welfare State, Paternalism

I have a passionate desire for personal privacy. I want to stand before the world, for good or bad, on the book I wrote, not on what I say in letters to friends, not on my husband and my home life, the way I dress, my likes and dislikes, et cetera. My book belongs to anyone who has the price, but nothing of me belongs to the public.

- Margaret Mitchell

topic: Husband, Book, Home, Passionate Desire, Personal Privacy