Quotes About Privacy

Keep your personal life private. Take the risk of people not knowing you. Anything you do reveal, trust me, will eventually come back to haunt you.

Could it be that they were sick enough at this point of their own lives to get worked up about those of others? That's always the case. We live under the dictates of others' desires. Natalie and François didn't want to become a TV series for their crowd. For the moment, they loved the idea of being two people alone in the world, in the most perfect cliché of romantic schmaltzy serenity.

Do something untoward and there is a good chance that it might be observed, recorded and, given time, judged.

Het geheim van het succes is de geheimhouding.

When you're a kid, and you first start reading grown-up books, it's like looking in a window at night at people who think no one is around.

state secret matter.

The multiple human needs and desires that demand privacy among two or more people in the midst of social life must inevitably lead to cryptology wherever men thrive and wherever they write. Cultural diffusion seems a less likely explanation for its occurrence in so many areas, many of them distant and isolated.

Plaintext a might be represented in a long message by all 26 letters. Conversely, any given ciphertext letter might stand for any one of 26 plaintext letters.

one of the essential elements of cryptography: a deliberate transformation of the writing.

we live in a twisted world where everything, both big and small, is subject to surveillance, and where anything worth money will always be exploited.

Those who spy on the people end up themselves being spied on by the people. There's a fundamental democratic logic to it.

These days you can't do a goddamn thing online without leaving footprints.

Those who spy on the people end up themselves being spied on by the people.

Prime numbers have become secrecy's best friends.

Real people have a way of banging against the doors you've closed; they know your name, your phone number. They live with you.

Think you it is easy to get a well-known and beautiful woman alone, away from her husband, at so public a gathering? Think you that, in the company of dozens of guests and nearly as many gossipy servants, a man can just pull such a woman aside into a private closet? It would not be easy for any ordinary man--at least I suspect it would not. I cannot say how ordinary men go about their business.

I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.

Don't forget, God can see you masturbating. But don't stop. He's almost there.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.

God forbid we keep a couple secrets in this day and age!

Where I'm from? A little town called none of yo god damn business.

Thank God genuine video phones hadn't been invented. I hadn't even grabbed a towel. Ford Prefect would despair of me.

To be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy.