PRIVACY QUOTES III

quotations about privacy

Privacy quote

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Tags: Christopher Hitchens


Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

AYN RAND

The Fountainhead

Tags: Ayn Rand


To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

ANTHONY BURGESS

Homage to Qwert Yuiop: Essays


Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order ... and the like.

WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS

Points of Rebellion


Private life favoreth happiness.

SEE-MA-KOANG

attributed, Day's Collacon


Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the cave, the tribal tepee, the pueblo, the community fortress, man emerged to build himself a house of his own with a shelter in it for himself and his diversions. Every age has seen it so. The poor might have to huddle together in cities for need's sake, and the frontiersman cling to his neighbors for the sake of protection. But in each civilization, as it advanced, those who could afford it chose the luxury of a withdrawing-place.

PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

"A Lost Privilege", The Province of the Heart

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All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

KATHARINE FULLERTON GEROULD

Modes and Morals


He has not spent his life badly who has passed it from his birth to his burial in privacy.

HORACE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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There is a self-imposed privacy less easily invaded than convent walls.

HENRY THEODORE TUCKERMAN

The Optimist: A Series of Essays


There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions--a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.

GEOFFREY FISHER

Look Magazine, March 17, 1959


The empowerment given ordinary citizens by the social media is testing the limits of just how much personal privacy can be chipped away. The digital revolution is fuelling a competition that not long ago was the exclusive territory of the professional news media. And when it comes to being the first to report a story, "healthy competition" can turn nasty in a hurry.

EDITOR

The Nation, May 28, 2016


Intimacy is an important part of a happy relationship, but so is a healthy respect for each other's privacy.

LESLIE BECKER-PHELPS

"How Much Privacy Is Good for a Relationship?", WebMD, June 1, 2016


Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet

Tags: William Shakespeare


Private interests must yield to public good.

EDMUND GETTY

The Last King of Ulster