Quotes About Privacy

Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage.

A society notorious for effacing the boundary which once separated the private from the public, for making it a public virtue and obligation to publicly expose the private, and for wiping away from public communication anything that resists being reduced to private confidences, together with those who refuse to confide them.

Siempre y cuando uno no olvide que lo que antes era invisible -la cuota de intimidad de cada uno, la vida interior de todos- ahora es expuesto en la escena pública, uno comprenderá que quienes procuran la invisibilidad están condenados al rechazo, a la exclusión, condenados a ser sospechosos de algún crimen. La desnudez física, social y psíquica está a la orden del día.

En el corazón de las redes sociales está el intercambio de información personal." Los usuarios están felices de poder "revelar detalles íntimos de sus vidas íntimas", "de dejar asentada información verdadera" e "intercambiar fotografías".

En la sociedad de la información, es crucial la capacidad de protegerse de ese 99.99% de datos que uno no desea.

El interés público se limita a la curiosidad por la vida privada de las figuras públicas, y el arte de la vida pública queda reducido a la exhibición pública de asuntos privados y a confesiones públicas de sentimientos privados (cuanto más íntimos, mejor). Los "temas públicos" que se resisten a esa reducción se transforman en algo incomprensible.

For some reason, I kept trying to see how much pubic hair he had. It was all matted and kind of orange, like something you use to scrub soap scum. When he caught me looking, he told me that the landlord on the show – Mr. Furley or whatever his name was – didn't try hard enough. "That guy doesn't try hard enough, Steve," he said. I felt weirdly ashamed when he said that. So much so that I went into his room and urinated on his bed.

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

Twice I'd come home as they were finishing, and, honestly, I cannot think of a lonelier sound on a Saturday night than one's roommate having a giant orgasm and then making an embarrassed sssh sound, realizing that maybe through her pleasure she'd heard the front door open and close.

peeing into a cup.

She suggests, too, that our capacity for intimate relationships can depend on having this deep core of private awareness; and that acknowledging our unknown and unseen selves, and offering these up only when and if we choose, is essential to our ability to engage in close relationships. Valuing interior experience is vital to developing a sense of self, and how we reveal ourselves to the outside world has everything to do with how we stay out of view when we need to.

It has become routine to assume that the rewards of life are public and that our lives can be measured by how we are seen rather than what we do.

Dragostea pare delimitat? de dou? disolu?ii - via?a sub prea multe priviri ?i via?a sub prea pu?ine.

I will remove these restraints. And leave this cell, with the door open, and retire to my living quarters. I will speak of this encounter to no one.

Somehow, we need to create a new habit of mind, as individuals and as a society. We need a mental attitude that values and protects stillness, privacy, solitude, slowness, personal reflection; that honors the inner life; that allows each of us to wander about without schedule within our own minds.

It is the celebration of privacy and solitude. It is the willingness to follow one's own thoughts. It is the indulgence of play and unscheduled time.

Orwell was almost exactly wrong in a strange way. He thought the world would end with Big Brother watching us, but it ended with us watching Big Brother.

Behind gods, ghosts, and people squats the state, which asserts total access to both public and private space: the

Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.

Every day when you leave your home you give away more than you could ever imagine about who you are and what you do.

He who lives well lives well hidden.

Bene vixit, bene qui latuit. (to live well is to live concealed)

Most people don't understand performers are really sheltered and protected so much sometimes that they don't get a chance to live their lives.

But the truth is, sometimes kids—and adults—seem to wait until their relatives are out of the room to go. It's like they don't want to distress them more than they have to.