Quotes About Privacy

What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing?

The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.

We have contradictory expectations of police: We want to be perfectly safe and perfectly free. We want total security and total privacy. We want the bad guys stopped and the good guys unmolested. That's great for the consumer; try providing it.

I don't get people baring their lives on television. Maybe it makes other people feel better about themselves. Is that what it is? You watch these people making total fools of themselves. It's like there's absolutely no privacy.

Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state - the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech.

Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it about telemarketers interrupting your supper with cold calls? It depends. Mainly, of course, it depends on whether you live in a totalitarian or a free society.

Totalitarianism is not about some state that appears out of nowhere and suddenly is all-powerful. There can't be any such thing. Totalitarianism starts when the difference between your public life and your private life is effaced.

I think the FISA court's basically totally irrelevant.

I love Sia and how she hides her face. If I could pull off doing that, I totally would.

My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.

I think it's totally up to the individual if they'd like a private life or if they'd like to be in the public eye - it's a choice you can make.

I can be a show-off at home. But publicly, I have always been a private person. It's not totally my bag to court the press.

xxx each of us carries his or her own solitude. We are invisible and we cannot be touched.

I had no desire to be seen by anyone, or talk to anyone. Sometimes out walking I would be in such a peculiar state of mind that I would rush home at the merest hint of another person.

What he must have suffered, in his lovely English privacy.

185. It Is Getting So Dark Whatever people may think of my book, I still regret that it ever came to light.

A man you've had to conceal in some unsatisfactory hiding place, who then begins to snore.

Espiar a otro es enrarecerlo. Y cuanto más intrascendente es el registro de sus acciones, más raro resulta.

Turi remembers this strange feeling repeated throughout his life: who he thinks he is in his mind is sometimes not who others see or imagine he can be. This gap never seems to go away. Sometimes this secret self is comforting, for its privacy. Sometimes it is amusing, when he witnesses what crazy assumptions others have of him. Too often this gap is dispiriting, a prison inside of him without any means of escape.

I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.

You, uh, caught me there at an unladylike moment. Mrs. Wattlesbrook would probably box my ears." "That's why I spoke. I wanted to let you know you were not alone before you did something--something worse." "Like what?" "Whatever women do when they think they're alone.

The wounded cab driver was swearing softly and constantly, and Vertu moved slightly away from him, so as to give him the privacy such a rendering of art deserved.

If I pass a mirror, I turn away, I do not want to look at her, and she does not want to be seen.

I needed to grieve alone, not as a group and not as a spectacle.