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Quotes About Intrusion

Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.
~ Patti Davis
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
~ Willa Cather
They seem to think that interference is good if only they interfere. In
~ William Graham Sumner
The danger of minding other people's business is twofold. First, there is the danger that a man may leave his own business unattended to; and, second, there is the danger of an impertinent interference with another's affairs. The
~ William Graham Sumner
Satan knows what orders thou keepest in thy house and closet, and though he hath not a key to thy heart, yet he can stand in the next room to it, and lightly hear what is whispered there.
~ William Gurnall
If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwanted government intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision to bear or beget a child.
~ WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
If the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.
~ William J. Brennan (Jr.)
The problem with military policies that are built to domestic specifications and do not take into account the complexity of the real world is that eventually the real world intrudes.
~ David Halberstam
Those who spy on the people end up themselves being spied on by the people. There's a fundamental democratic logic to it.
~ David Lagercrantz
Real people have a way of banging against the doors you've closed; they know your name, your phone number. They live with you.
~ David Leavitt
Despite breaking into my room, Steve seemed like a pretty decent lizard guy.
~ David Liss
If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?
~ Aaron Allston
When I go to peoples' houses I like to sneak into their bedrooms and try on their underwear.
~ Tom Clancy
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
~ Horace
But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.
~ Elton John
As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.
~ Stewart Dalzell
We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.
~ Tulsi Gabbard
Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.
~ Erykah Badu
They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.
~ Edward Snowden
I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.
~ Edward Snowden
I think we're on too many government watch lists. We'd better let this one go.
~ Grant Imahara
I think most Americans are against illegal surveillance of their emails and telephone calls by the government.
~ Ralph Nader
Experiment or not, the government is always watching. - Felix
~ Donna Galanti, The Dark Inside
When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.
~ Portia de Rossi