Quotes About Privacy

Power wants us numbered and not named, carded and not just remembering our name, address, telephone number, purpose, social security number, PIN, and so forth. Power has good reasons. As long as we have papers, we cohere;

In general men keep their internal lives–and their more complex emotions–closely guarded, because either they don't understand them or they are afraid of being betrayed by them.

The value of a secret depends upon whom you're trying to keep it from.

In a deep psychological sense, we have no self unless we have a secret.

In a deep psychological sense, we have no self unless we have a secret. We grab for them whenever we begin losing ourselves in our social group or work or marriage. We reassert our identity as somebody apart.

Kamera, video, telepon, dan internet membuat bersembunyi semakin sulit dilakukan sekarang ini" - Nicholas Flamel

It is better to exist unknown to the law.' 

It is better to exist unknown to the law.

To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.

The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense...

Software design as taught today is terribly incomplete. It talks only about what systems should do. It doesn't address the converse—things systems should not do. They should not crash, hang, lose data, violate privacy, lose money, destroy your company, or kill your customers.

He answered emails in one word—partly a paranoia about email, but even more a controlling crypticness.

I was in Russia years ago with the Ms. Universe contest—did very very well—I tell everyone be careful, because you don't want to see yourself on television—cameras all over the place. And again, not just Russia, all over. So would anyone really believe that story? I'm also very much of a germaphobe, by the way. Believe me.

Man is the sole animal whose nudity offends his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.

We must reserve a back shop all our own, entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

Intimacy isn't something men talk about.

intimacy isn't something men talk about. They may talk about politics, literature, stocks, or sports, depending on the man, but about their love lives they keep silent, even to their dying breath.

Al contrario que ellas, yo no podía hablar de ello con nadie, puesto que las conversaciones sobre la vida íntima no forman parte de los temas considerados admisibles en la sociedad de los hombres: hablan de política, de literatura, de los mercados financieros o de deportes, según su naturaleza; guardan silencio sobre su vida amorosa, hasta su último aliento.

But secrets can also keep things precious. Private. That's what can be hard for people to understand. It can be nice to have something you don't share with the world." -Bridgette

What I think and what Iam prepared to say are entirely different things.

He's always asking: 'Is that new? I haven't seen that before.' It's like, Why don't you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

It takes years for me to trust I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable.

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.