Quotes About Privacy

The journalists and their editors were totally ruthless and had no respect for the lives of the surviving victims. Publishing their names and addresses meant that the killer could have found them and killed them, because they could identify him.

The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.

Nada disto tu viste, nada te contei, nada é teu.

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.

Delete Never Means Delete in the Information Age.

Gostava das coisas só para ele, guardando tudo na memória, dono sozinho de seus feitos e fracassos.

Casey meant it when she said, 'Forgive us for our debts as we forgive our debtors,' because they were for her the hardest words to live by, and by saying them, she hoped they'd become possible. Like Ted, Casey would never discuss her ambivalent views on religion. She was honest enough to admit that her privacy cloaked a fear: the fear of being found out as a hypocrite" (Free Food For Millionaires, p.100-101.)

because he knew well enough to draw a thick line between what was public and what was private.

I would rather have someone read my diary than look at my iPod playlists.

Once I saw Paris Hilton leaving a restaurant in Hollywood and the paparazzi cameras were all over her. It looked so unpleasant. It wasn't because she didn't look sensational - she was that perfect combination of fashionable and slutty - it was because the paparazzi guys were shouting these insanely rude and intrusive questions at her. Like, asking her who she was sleeping with and stuff. I was kind of interested in the answer, so I was glad they asked, but it was still gross.

Note: if you want to seem like a super-creepy person, be an adult, by yourself, taking photos of children and people on a beach.

Like a rich person, I live with a full-time servant who keeps everything in order—and because the servant is me, there's no invasion of privacy.

We still kissed frequently, usually a cluster of small pecks. An acronym for our early deep kisses. Which in a way was more intimate because only we knew what it stood for.

We learned to be discreet. It helped that nobody really cares about anyone but themselves anyway.

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

There's something about putting words on a page in private that makes me feel powerful in public.

You read her diary! That's wrong, Ma!" Ma closes the incinerator door and raises her palms in the air like she's praying. "I have to find out what's going on in her head, don't I? It's my duty to keep her safe." "You'll make her dangerous instead," Starry answers.

hermetic world.

It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed

Dreams are meant to be kept secret, mostly bad dreams that are still unrevealed.

Most of our journalists today have nothing great to report except poking their noses into other people's family affairs.

Secrets are always beautiful, but it depends on how you want to keep them.

There is no liberty or equality without respecting the privacy of someone else.