Quotes About Privacy

I've never been fully transparent or an open book, even to those you'd call close friends.

After a while, you just want transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about getting attention. I get all the attention I could ever need, so I kind of like being in a minivan and people not paying so much attention to me.

Nouns are seldom improved by the modifier 'public.' Few of us, given a private alternative, prefer public restrooms or public transportation or public displays of affection.

Only when there is no privacy can there be total control

Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.

what my mother doesnt know wont hurt her

Nine out of ten introverts agree: The telephone is the tool of the devil.

Every introvert alive knows the exquisite pleasure of stepping from the clamor of a party into the bathroom and closing the door.

In secret places we can think and imagine, we can feel angry or sad in peace. There is something to be said for just being, without worrying about offending anyone.

I hate it when people come up to me on trains and ask 'Are you Soulja Boy?' If people want pictures or autographs, that's cool, but I don't like the dumb questions.

truly understand what's going on with the youth of America, you need to realize we are the first generation that has spent our entire lives in the hyper-connected world. The Internet, social media, mobile devices—previous generations didn't deal with the ubiquity of this shit and have no clue how dangerous and exhausting it is to go through the trials of adolescence and young adulthood in a world that is always on. There is no privacy.

Reading is an act of friendly isolation. When we are reading, we make ourselves unapproachable in a tactful way. Perhaps that is exactly what has interested painters for so long in the portrayal of readers: showing people in a state of deepest intimacy not intended for outsiders. If the viewer were to approach the reader in real life, this condition would immediately be threatened. So painting allows us to see what we actually cannot see, or see only at the price of destroying it.

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Seuls les enfants solitaires peuvent contenir toute leur passion; les autres, à trop causer éventent leurs sentiments en public, les émoussent en vaines confidences.

Aucune souffrance n'est plus sacrée que celle qui par pudeur n'ose pas se manifester

What Montaigne seeks is his interior self, that which cannot submit to state, to family, to time, to circumstances, to money, to property; this interior self, which Goethe labelled the "citadel", where all access is prohibited.

Anonymity may be a powerful drug; it is as well we do not taste too much of it in our daily lives.

We aren't the kind of people who talk about our problems.

Meanwhile, I want your personal assurance that this information will be kept completely confidential." "Don't worry," Dr. Tyson said evenly, "I don't have a Facebook account.

Popularity has a bright side, it unlocks many doors. But the truth is that I don't like it very much because it changes the private life into a very small thing.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.