Quotes About Privacy

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.

How we love sequestering, where no pests are pestering.

There's nothing wrong with making love with the light on. Just make sure the car door is closed.

The parallels between making love and giving birth are clear, not only in terms of passion and love, but also because we need essentially the same conditions for both experiences: privacy and safety.

Modesty and dew love the shade.

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

I was good at keeping secrets from my parents (it's one of the things we learn while growing up, after all).

All the stuff that was important or interesting about me was what I couldn't share.

There are no real secrets among the rich, it turns out. Just people paid to keep them.

This is the thing about growing up in a small town. Every part of your life is up for grabs. Nothing is secret.

I was good at keeping secrets from my parents (it's one of the things we learn while growing up, after all)—but coping with the anxiety by myself was something else entirely.

I don't want to make polite conversation with neighbours, to explain myself. I don't want to be judged for what I did.

I didn't like the thought of being watched all the time.

At his apartment she peed with the bathroom door open. It sounded like a visiting horse was relieving itself.

I pressed my ear against the door, trying to work out if it was safe to knock, feeling furtive, as if it were I who was at fault. But all I could hear was music and muffled conversation.

We're creating a culture where people feel constantly surveilled, where people are afraid to be themselves.

As somebody back then wrote, "Facebook is where you lie to your friends, Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers.

After years of watching adversaries comb through her public records for any hint of a scandal, and after accessing her own aides' e-mails, Hillary well understood the danger of exposing her own private thoughts to scrutiny. And that was reason enough to want them shielded from political enemies, journalists, and the public.

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Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.

I vaguely mind people knowing anything I don't know. --Paul McCartney