Quotes About Privacy

The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.

My only ritual is making sure everyone leaves me alone.

He nods solemnly and repeats the stock response of the Housing Committee whenever they address the perpetual shortage of apartments in Leningrad. "Privacy is a conceit of degenerate societies.

Have you ever been kissed?" he asked. Arms coming uncrossed, she stepped back. "What?" "Have you ever been kissed?" "That's, that's none of your business.

No one else, however much you love and adore the person, sees the true significance of your private epiphanies. The secret belongs to you, with you, in you.

What others think of you is none of your business.

Everything okay?" Jake appeared at her side. "Would you stop sneaking up on me?" she said, unwilling to admit that the insanely loud washing machine may have disguised his entrance. He

A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.

Just because you don't share it on social media, doesn't mean you're not up to big things. Live it and stay low key. Privacy is everything.

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately.

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

It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

A person has to keep something to herself or you're life is just a layout in a magazine.

Live your life without attracting attention.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.

But rather than looking forward to reading that account, I felt as if I were stealing a private diary that had been locked by his death.

But he didn't tell her and she didn't tell him, and if it guessed their secrets, it kept silent. He

Most people in New York City had started wearing masks, to keep the pollution out, but also to protect privacy.

All we ask is to be left alone.

Journalism is a function, like going to the lavatory, best done at home and not talked about.