Quotes About Privacy

In addition to its significance in liberal democratic theory, privacy stakes out a sphere for creativity, psychological wellbeing, our ability to love, forge social relationships, promote trust, intimacy, and friendship.

Westin's ubiquitous and influential idea conceives of privacy as a claim: the 'claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others'.

Just because the question can be answered doesn't mean that anyone is obliged to answer it, or that it ought to be asked.

The veil was a kind of wall of privacy, the marker of a woman for one man, a portable architecture of confinement.

Don't think this means I'm giving you all my secrets. There is more to me than you will ever know.

Warren life doesn't make for secrecy.

Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise . . . Pardon my French, but you are one darn major American writer! ---Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions, on Sandcastle and Other Stories

I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard

No Trespassing. 4/17 of a Haiku.

No one has the right to force you to violate your own privacy.

The right to be Christian' seems in this case to mean 'the right to poke your nose into other people's private lives.

us a place to vent and a place to dream. They are intended for no eyes but our own. Virginia

He knew what they said of him locally: Oh, he likes to keep himself to himself. The phrase was descriptive, not judgemental. It was a principle of life the English still respected. And it wasn't just about privacy, about an Englishman's home—even a pebbledash semi—being his castle. It was about something more: about the self, and where you kept it, and who, if anyone, was allowed to fully see it.

Point One. I'm not a go-between. Whatever you say stays in thisroom and it doesn't get leaked back. Point Two. I'm not a shrink, I'm not some kind of advice centre, I don't even much like listening to other people's woes. [...] Point Three. I'm just an old soak whose life hasn't worked out and who lieves alone with her dogs. So I'm not an authority on anything.

I know already that she and her husband have separate beds, indeed separate rooms, and their marriage has been unconsummated—or rather, sex-free—for almost twenty years; but I haven't pressed her for reasons or particulars.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

Once upon a time, privacy was valued. For goodness' sake, a disabled president of the United States could ask that the press not photograph him in a wheelchair or being transferred to his car or generally in a weakened state, and the press would oblige. Those were the days.

Sometimes your secrets are your only value.

Made­lyne, I would like to speak to you in pri­vate after din­ner. Speak to me about what? Made­lyne de­manded with a dis­grun­tled look. Men and their horses, Dun­can told her

But we never say, the pool. Because the pool is ours and ours alone. It's my own secret Valhalla.

I do not want any man to see me suffer.

It was better to avoid ostentatious piety and pray in the privacy of one's cell because 'if we pray when others are present, their approbation may rob our prayer of . . . its effect'.25 There would be no sudden illumination;

Jack,would you mind giving us some privacy? Jack looked Dougal up and down. Are you going to berate him? No. Chastise him? No. Kick him out of the house? No. Then I don't mind leaving. Jack turned a bland gaze to Dougal. Be careful of listening at keyholes, old man. Some of these locks are rather rusty; you could cut yourself.

One should never ask a man questions about his personal life. He just might answer and then you, my dear, would have to listen.