Quotes About Privacy

But now they were all fifteen, there was a lot they did not tell each other.

I don't know what to do, and if I did know what to do I wouldn't tell you, because if I had to tell you today then I'd have to tell you tomorrow, and when I'm gone you'd have to get somebody else to tell you.

Matt kept himself from shining the flashlight on him.

Había descubierto que montar en bici me permitía pensar sin preocuparme de que alguien se percatara de mis muecas y expresiones.

When information about who is or is not a security threat is a product to be sold as readily as information about who buys Harry Potter books on Amazon or who has taken a Caribbean cruise and might enjoy one in Alaska, it changes the values of a culture. Not only does it create an incentive to spy, torture and generate false information but it creates a powerful impetus to perpetuate the fear and sense of peril that created the industry in the first place.

Today I fear that we are in fact waking up to a surveillance society that is already all around us. —Richard Thomas, U.K. information commissioner, November 2006

the politeness people extend as a matter of course to the bodies of men does not apply to those of women: Women have little physical privacy. Each change or weight fluctuation is publicly observed, judged, and discussed.

Relating personal problems to associates and customers. Your personal problems are important to you—and only you. Everyone has their share and they don't want to hear about yours.

Todos tenemos un secreto encerrado bajo llave en el ático del alma. Éste es el mío.

He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people... I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them - a comfortable prison of his own design. You say this as if you envied him. There are worse prisons than words.

We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul

Ik dankte de hemel dat er geen getuigen waren van mijn blos, die voldoende zou zijn geweest om een sigaar op een halve meter afstand te doen ontbranden.

A SECRET'S WORTH DEPENDS ON THE PEOPLE FROM WHOM IT MUST be kept.

Wir alle haben im Dachgeschoss der Seele ein Geheimnis unter Verschluss.

Un segreto conta quanto coloro da cui dobbiamo proteggerlo

People who have no life always have to stick their nose in the life of others

La gente que no tiene vida siempre se tiene que meter en la de los demás.

Tajna vrijedi koliko i oni od kojih je moramo kriti.

Un secreto vale lo que aquello de quienes tenemos que guardarlo.

Um segredo vale o que valem aqueles de quem temos de guardá-lo.

Ein Geheimnis ist soviel wert wie der der es uns anvertraut.

But underneath the action, it asks a question just as tough: Is it ever right to "out" someone, to take away their control of what the world knows of them?

My expression froze into a polite smile. I didn't want to tell her. I wasn't ready to tell her about the kids thing. We had more important things to talk about.

She had always kept things to herself. That was one sure truth.