(582 quotes found)
“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
“Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting.”
Marilyn Monroe
“You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.”
Johnny Depp
“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”
Aristotle
“Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.”
John Perry Barlow
“If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.”
Bill Nelson
“This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.”
Bill Maher
“The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual”
Earl Warren
“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 Orville Douglas
“The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen -- a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a [person's] life.”
