Quotes About Privacy

Using pseudo names for privacy, and protection is not an offence, but if that causes any damage, to others is absolutely a crime.

Your partner knows your body secrets; never neglect and ignore others to spy on that.

Nobody's home. Don't answer the door during working hours unless you're waiting for a special delivery. Use a peephole if you need to know.

Frequently, walking down the streets in Paris alone, I've suddenly come upon myself in a store window grinning foolishly away at the thought that no one in the world knew where I was at just that moment.

You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.

Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

If asked, you should state how you feel, how you think. But until asked, it is an intrusion to thrust your ideas on any grown human being.

What other people think of me is none of my business.

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

Eliminating herself was a sort of aesthetic project. One can't go on anymore, she said, electronics seems so clean and yet it dirties, dirties tremendously, and it obliges you to leave traces of yourself everywhere as if you were shitting and peeing on yourself continuously: I want to leave nothing, my favorite key is the one that deletes.

Reading and writing are closed-room activities, which literally take you away from the gaze of others. The greater risk is that they also remove others from your gaze.

I hated the idea that he knew everything about me while I knew little or nothing of him. I felt like someone who is blind and knows that he is being observed by the very people he would like to spy on in every detail.

Aceptar que ser adultos es dejar de mostrarse, es aprender a ocultarse hasta desaparecer?

O motivo havia sido um gesto sem sentido, sobre o qual, justamente por ser sem sentido, decidi não contar a ninguém. As coisas mais difíceis de falar são as que nós mesmos não conseguimos entender.

L'amore è opaco come i vetri delle finestre dei cessi

My mother said that that had been wrong. She said that children were people, whose dignity and privacy were worthy of respect. She was the only person I had ever met or heard of who thought or said anything like that.

Why was it so hard not to glance through an open door, even when you didn't want to see inside?

The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.

personal privacy. That debate, a quaint twentieth-century one, is just ignorant background noise: the right to privacy is gone, lost already, or at least so compromised it's really worthless. No, the real present and future threat is manipulation, the inculcation of prescribed attitudes and modes of behavior into an unwitting citizenry, the unseen shift by the state from monitoring to control, the last chapter of the long tale of democracy, free will deformed into willing compliance.

But where can you go and truly not be found? Where can anyone go anymore?

There was no such thing as a private life, all lives were public.

Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly.

And she is older, in my defense, the way Alison goes on you'd think I'd been fucking an undergraduate. In any case, once Astrid and I had established relations, I understood that they might cross paths, so we were exceptionally discreet about our . . . connection.

Our relationship developed under a cloud of paranoia. We ordered in rather than going out. When we did meet out in the world, we avoided anywhere that we might bump into anyone we knew. This might have seemed like overkill, but it was also fun, one of the games we played.