Quotes About Privacy

What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly.

I can't talk about Kathy [Jeung] anymore, because she doesn't want me to talk about her, and I'm not even sure that it's an ongoing relationship.

Your relationship with your husband should be an important part of your private life, but publicly you should be able to define yourself.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly.

How hard it is for women to keep counsel!

Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!

There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

Some might say that one's faith is a private matter and should not be spoken of so publicly. They might assert this in public, but what do they really think in their hearts? The fact is, those who say such things usually don't even have a concern for faith in the privacy of their interior lives.

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

Be very suspicious if somebody says they want to make a movie of your life story.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

After all, is there any person so unhappy, so abandoned, that he doesn't have a little den into which he can withdraw and hide away from everyone? Nothing more elaborate is needed for the journey.

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.

But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and their relatives too. Eat together and share everything, talk about everything. Privacy make people lonely. Privacy make family fallen apart.

Huizi barely called anyone. He didn't get too involved with the details of his friends' lives. He was private, shut tight like a fortress. His short crew-cut and refined manners gave him the air of a Buddhist monk. Huizi would say never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back.

When he closed his eyes his mind began to roam, and only with his eyes closed did he not feel others watching and observing him. With his eyes closed, there was freedom and he could wander.

You're safe only when you can't see anybody.