Quotes About Privacy

But now, since you have given me accurate proof describing our bed, which no other mortal man beside has ever seen, but only you and I, and there is one serving woman, Aktor's daughter, whom my father gave me when I came here, who used to guard the doors for us in our well-built chamber; 230 so you persuade my heart, though it has been very stubborn.

That mania for doing things in private. Which meant, in practice, not doing anything at all. For what was there that one could do in private.

Because people are very careful with the secrets of their own business doesn't mean that they'll be careful with the secrets of yours.

he was glad to be alone for a moment and be welcomed by his pyjamas

The world is too public. These things can only be secured in privacy. You talk of kings and presidents. How much power do they possess? As much as their people will allow them. Who in the world has the power of life or death over his people? Now that Stalin is dead, can you name any man except myself? And how do I possess that power, that sovereignty? Through privacy. Through the fact that nobody knows. Through the fact that I have to account to no one.

Now the pieces in the puzzle fell firmly into place. For this it was certainly worth scaring away a few birds and wiping out a few people. Privacy? Of course Doctor No would have to kill him and the girl. Power? This was it. Doctor No had really got himself into business.

he was glad to be alone for a moment and by welcomed by his pyjamas

And now he knew that … the conquest of her body, because of the central privacy in her, would have the sweet tang of rape.

but that the conquest of her body, because of the central privacy in her, would each time have the sweet tang of rape.

We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was a rare sight below the waves, of a man's privacy and turmoil, of his dignity upended by the overpowering necessity of pure fantasy, pure thought, by the irreducible human element - Mind.

No one knew about the squirrel's skull beneath her bed, but no one wanted to know.

At her elbow was a slim pile of creamy white paper beside which she laid down her pen. It was only then, at the sight of these clean sheets, that the last traces, the stain, of her own situation vanished completely. She no longer had a private life, she was ready to be absorbed.

Niente nella sua vita era sufficientemente interessante o scandaloso da meritare di essere tenuto segreto [...]

I despised even more the agglomeration of routines and learning algorithms that could burrow into my life, like a tropical river worm, and make choices on my behalf.

Were you watching me sleep? Because I thought we agreed that's creepy.

Shifting in the hospital bed had blown her closet door wide open.

There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned, sins committed and imagined, and raw emotion. How many of us are ready to have our lives judged? What would happen if we were found wanting?

How did people keep finding me? I spent all this time and money making a secret hideout and literally everyone I've met in the last two days now knew where it was.

On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions.

Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.

Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.

I think young people of all races are interested in justice; maybe not so much taxes and regulations, but they're interested in justice and the right to privacy on the Internet.