Quotes About Confidentiality

The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.

Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.

When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.

Unfortunately, this category of secret is itself so secret that it's very existance is secret, and he can't actually reveal it to anyone.

Maybe that's what a leader is, Dinah. The one person who can't—who shouldn't—share her problems with anyone else.

These are one-time pads.

Only general officers were entitled to know our true rank. To all others our standard reply to the inevitable question, "What is your rank?" was simply a firm, "My rank is confidential, but at this moment I am not outranked."39

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets.

I once had a 'best friend' share private stories that I had told her in confidence to another mutual friend. I think the worst part, aside from the actual betrayal of trust, is that this experience affected my future relationships, as I was hesitant to be as open with my other friends.

She would be a part of their world and that meant secrecy at all times. She couldn't tell a soul anything he told her. Trust worked both ways and he was trusting her with his life and the lives of his family members.

Privacy is a rare commodity on a small island and secrets weigh heavy on their keepers

If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.

How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself

Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.

Every man has reminiscences that he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has other matters in his mind that he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. Dostoyevsky. Notes from Underground. It

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

A midwife knows too much . . . But if she is truly a wise woman, she knows when to keep her mouth shut.

The many pro-surveillance advocates I have debated since Snowden blew the whistle have been quick to echo Eric Schmidt's view that privacy is for people who have something to hide. But none of them would willingly give me the passwords to their email accounts, or allow video cameras in their homes.

We all instinctively understand that the private realm is where we can act, think, speak, write, experiment, and choose how to be, away from the judgmental eyes of others. Privacy is a core condition of being a free person.

Privacy is a core condition of being a free person.

Your personal life is now known as Facebook's data. Its CEO's personal life is now known as mind your own business.

there are all sorts of things people do that they are eager to keep private, even though these sorts of things do not constitute doing "something wrong." Privacy is indispensable to a wide range of human activities.