Quotes About Privacy

The fear of exposing one's private life gives way to the desire to over-expose it to every one.

Record things in your heart. It's more important than trying to show people what you're experiencing.

You don't have to explain your dreams, they belong to you.

What other people think of you is none of your business!

You don't have to explain your dreams, they belong to you.

My wife and I have created our own language. We can be at a table with six other people and have an argument without anyone knowing. It doesn't even have to be out loud. It's bizarre.

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

I buy some art but I don't like to talk about it.

I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.

When one admires an artist it is important not to know him personally.

I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is an important issue.

your goddamn business how rich I am. That's the

Sometimes it seems to me that the private life no longer suffices for many of us, that if we are not observed by others doing glamorous things, we might as well not exist.

I realize that I'm far less familiar with my own privates than with Guy's, and I've seen his only twice! I guess that's to be expected, since girls can't really look at ourselves without a reflection, whereas nothing's hidden with boys. It seems unfair, but there's also something neat about it being shrouded in secrecy.

I think you probably know what you're doing and whatever you do is your own business.

She wanted to cry, but she did not want Peter to see her cry, and she especially did not want Teacher, with her flowing hair, to see her cry.

SECRETS ARE LIES SHARING IS CARING PRIVACY IS THEFT

If things continue this way, there will be two societies - or at least I hope there will be two - the one you're helping create, and an alternative to it. You and your ilk will live, willingly, joyfully, under constant surveillance, watching each other always, commenting on each other, voting and liking and disliking each other, smiling and frowning, and otherwise doing nothing much else.

Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.

And it's eliminated my ability to just talk to you." He was still talking. "I mean, I can't send you emails, because you immediately forward them to someone else. I can't send you a photo, because you post it on your own profile. And meanwhile, your company is scanning all of our messages for information they can monetize. Don't you think this is insane?

Secrets are the enablers of antisocial, immoral and destructive behavior.

The question, from pundits and constituents, was obvious and loud: If you aren't transparent, what are you hiding? Though some citizens and commentators objected on grounds of privacy, asserting that government, at virtually every level, had always needed to do some things in private for the sake of security and efficiency, the momentum crushed all such arguments and the progression continued. If you weren't operating in the light of day, what were you doing in the shadows?