Quotes About Privacy

I don't want to fight for the people, I don't want to fight against the people, I don't want to hear of the people. I want to be left alone—to live.

Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched. The things which are sacred or precious to us are the things we withdraw from promiscuous sharing.

the entire notion of the state undermining some primordial family privacy is a myth, because the nuclear family has never existed as an autonomous, private unit except where it was the synthetic creation of outside forces. The strong nuclear family is in large measure a creation of the strong state.

Trying to adopt a consistent position on whether state intervention is good or bad for privacy may be like demanding that scientists choose whether light consists of waves or particles, when it consists of both.

And I never felt that good in my life. But I also felt bad because I saw her naked without her permission.

Mitt Romney's email was hacked! So if you start getting messages that sound like they're from a bot, he's fixed the problem.

She thinks my name is Freddie, you know, but of course it ain't. I always tell these people some name like that, because if they got onto your right name they might use it sometime. Understand?

Either a municipal bog is a private place or it isn't. If it is a private place in which to shit, how is it not a private place in which to fellate?

Absolutely,' lies Zeus, who has, in common with us all, a horror of hearing the details of anyone else's dreams.

Friends don't spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.

Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.

Women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them

It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.

Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours.

It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldn't believe but because they wouldn't care.

I think we're actually talking about creative sleep. Like your bedroom, your writing room should be private, a place where you go to dream.

My first editor used to say that eighty-five per cent of what goes on in a novelist's head is none of his business, a sentiment I've never believed should be restricted to just writers.

Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours.

It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn't matter, if no one knew.

...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits

The best life is the one which is lived happily without being noticed by others!

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping