Privacy Quotes - page 2

I don't consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I've benefited from the sacrifice of others, ... So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it's worth the trade-off with my own privacy. (Tim Cook)
Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people... There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of higher order than the right to life. I do not share that view... That was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside of your right to concerned. View quote
Jesse Jackson
Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite. View quote
Marlon Brando
It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age. View quote
Andy Grove
The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy. View quote
Justin Timberlake
There is a solitude of space, A solitude of sea, A solitude of death, but these Society shall be, Compared with that profounder site, That polar privacy, A Soul admitted to Itself: Finite Infinity. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow. View quote
George Steiner
If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy. View quote
Phil Zimmermann
I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Mr. President, there comes to a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now. And I will not let the PATRIOT Act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged. (Rand Paul)
I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd expect Comfort. View quote
George Mason
Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else. View quote
Glenn Greenwald
No one wants their personal emails made public, and I think most people understand that and respect that privacy. View quote
Hillary Clinton
An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy. View quote
Boris Becker
An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes"--he owes performance and nothing else. .... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform. View quote
Peter Drucker
He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude. View quote
Aristotle
Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused. View quote
Richard Perle
Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace. (Novak Djokovic)
Your employer is the last person you should want to provide for your healthcare, from a privacy, financial, and value standpoint. Employees with families should get the family, meaning spouses and children, off the company plan. In most cases, that will save them money. View quote
Paul Zane Pilzer
I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of. View quote
Hugh Jackman
Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
I guess in my own life, privacy, anonymity, and the mystery of being lost are important. I also feel that people are mysterious and complex no matter what they do, and no matter how hard they try to reveal their own mystery. View quote
Jennifer Egan