Quotes about Privacy

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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret. — Gabriel García Márquez, Gabriel García Márquez: a Life
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my bi — Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa
Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thi — Nick Harkaway, The Blind Giant
A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discours — Nick Harkaway, The Blind Giant
Intellectual property, more than ever, is a line drawn around information, which asserts that despite having been set lo — Nick Harkaway, The Blind Giant
I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on. — Annabel Pitcher, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you we — Michael Bassey Johnson
Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have — Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase
There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over...the hope that t — Criss Jami
blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born. — José Saramago, Blindness
If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my pers — Mahatma Gandhi
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true f — C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too. — Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its — Virginia Woolf, The Waves
People that say they have nothing to hide, can’t be trusted with your secrets. — Danny Mekić
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. — Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men — Louis D. Brandeis
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all fre — William O. Douglas
No, solitude did not trouble her. She could spend long minutes gazing out the window, hours listening to the BBC on the — Daphne Kalotay, Russian Winter
When privacy is criminalized, only criminals will have privacy. — Daniel Suarez, Change Agent