Quotes About Privacy

The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system.

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

She didn't tell him about the cancer. She didn't want to tell anyone about it. It seemed to make everything worse.

And not telling anyone anything whenever possible is the secret of a happy marriage, in my experience.

I smiled ruefully to myself, knowing I had already experienced a far greater and deeper union with this man than that which propriety was so busy guarding against. I had seen and accepted our fate here, tonight, on the crest of this ancient hill, and all other ceremonies would be just that: rituals to please the people and make public the commitment that had been made in the privacy of my own heart.

I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people.

Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.

All important business is always done in men's rooms and smoking rooms," Gorbachev joked.

So," he said, after he had taken a bite "you're not going to tell me?" "Not going to tell you what?" "Whether or not you're gay." "No," I said. "Why should I? Did you tell your parents?" "I wasn't gay," said my father. "I was straight." "So, what, if you're gay you have a moral obligation to inform your parents and if you're straight you don't?

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

I'll see if I can get some more video files," Raina said. "But a lot of the surveillance cameras in Kintore are cloud stored, especially the civic ones covering the streets. Hacking them is going to be a little more difficult." "Do what you can," he told her.

What is it every authoritarian government says? If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear.

On Earth everybody is a foreigner to their neighbour. It's because we're all squashed up so tight. Privacy is a cherished commodity. In public places, people don't chat to strangers, they avoid eye contact. It's because that's the way they want to be treated. I'm

It was an encrypted message and routed through a onetime address

This is the age of total digitalisation; everything is online always.' 'Uh huh, and that's why our politicians are pure and clean, and the world works so well, is it? Because everybody knows everything and there's no hiding place.

The freer a society is, the more it leaves the family alone.

After Ehud was gone, Eglonís servants came in and found the doors of the upper room locked. “He must be relieving himself in the cool room,” they said.

Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

When Jesus heard about John, He withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. But the crowds found out about it and followed Him on foot from the towns.

So Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, and put His fingers into the manís ears. Then He spit and touched the manís tongue.

Then the apostles returned and reported to Jesus all that they had done. Taking them away privately, He withdrew to a town called Bethsaida.