Privacy Quotations
Privacy
From WikiquotePrivacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively.
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- The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
- William O. Douglas, dissenting, Public utilities Commission v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952)
- We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.
- William O. Douglas, dissenting, Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 341 (1966)
- The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Culture,” The Conduct of Life (1860)
- 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, Archbishop of Canterbury, Look magazine (March 17, 1959)
- 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 (1959)
- Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943), p. 715.
- For what reason have I this vast range and circuit, some square miles of unfrequented forest, for my privacy, abandoned to me by men? My nearest neighbor is a mile distant, and no house is visible from any place but the hill-tops within half a mile of my own. I have my horizon bounded by woods all to myself; a distant view of the railroad where it touches the pond on the one hand, and of the fence which skirts the woodland road on the other. But for the most part it is as solitary where I live as on the prairies. It is as much Asia or Africa as New England. I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1856)
- Privacy is the space bad people need to do bad things in.
- Paul McMullan, former deputy features editor for the News of the World, to Leveson Inquiry, 29 November 2011[1]
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- Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
- John Perry Barlow, libertarian activist and Greatful Dead lyricist
External links
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