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Quotes About Privacy

Don't be stupid, privacy is an illusion in today's electronic world. And i always investigate the people who interest me
~ Shannon McKenna
Without making universal claims, we can assume that people in the contemporary West … live lives bedeviled by the porcupine dilemma. That is, we struggle on a daily basis to balance privacy and community, concern for self and others, sexual union and a room of our own.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved.
~ Sharon Salzberg
As Henry Nevinson also pointed out, the rule of law, such as it was, functioned in a system in which Indians were 'compelled to live permanently under a system of official surveillance which reads their private letters, detains their telegrams, and hires men to watch their actions'. This, then, was the rule of law the British taught us. We have much to unlearn.
~ Shashi Tharoor
But, he warned, should the population—steadily stripped of its most basic rights, including the right to privacy, and increasingly impoverished and bereft of hope—become restive, inverted totalitarianism will become as brutal and violent as past totalitarian states.
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
My mother and grandmother's conversation doesn't belong in the cloud.   That old song is too sacred for the Internet.   So
~ Sherman Alexie
Can you keep a secret?" "Me and Tupperware, baby. We seal tight. Ain't nothing going to get out.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm not ogling him for myself. I'm ogling him for you. It was, after all, your sex life we were discussing. (Selena) Well, my sex life is just hunky-dory, and not the business of the people in this restaurant. (Grace)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Let me explain something to you. When you've made a woman mad by spying on her, you don't fix it by telling her she has a nice backside. That'll just get you bitch-slapped. (Jesse)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I don't need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first time you do something that displeases them. No offense, but when you have as many enemies as I do, you keep your secrets under lock and key. (Solin)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
There's no reason for you to know all that about me. My memories have never served good to anyone. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I prefer to work alone – except in the bedroom. (Steele)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Acheron: Yeah well, I don't like talking about myself and I despise personal questions. Tory: Fine. All I want is that brain of yours for a few
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I believe in having a private life.
~ Condoleezza Rice
I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.
~ David Blunkett
We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.
~ David Dimbleby
When you write about real life, there's always a chance that somebody involved is going to see it and get upset.
~ Denis Leary
You can do something really radical, which is turn your phone off and reclaim your private life.
~ Devra Davis
I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life.
~ Diora Baird
I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the press, so I can Google any date in my history and find out what I was doing.
~ Dolly Parton
I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.
~ Donna Summer
We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.
~ Elizabeth McGovern