Privacy Quotes

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

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

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.

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.

Morals are private. Decency is public.

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy.

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.

Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.

Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements.

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

I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

You already have zero privacy - get over it.

I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.

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

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

The so-called right to privacy, as it were, is no longer a right inasmuch as it is now a privilege, to be enjoyed until it is torn away at a moment’s notice.

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.

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.

If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.

I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place

I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

Privacy is a function of liberty.

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

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.

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.

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back.

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.

It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.

I suppose sometimes the lack of privacy can be a little hard to deal with at times.

I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people seek to have control over a social situation by managing impressions, information flows, and context.

It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.

After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.