Privacy Quotes

Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements.

Katherine Neville

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

George Eliot

I really fight for my privacy.

Kyle MacLachlan

Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.

Sarah Chalke

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

Marlon Brando

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

David Brin

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I believe in a zone of privacy.

Hillary Clinton

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

Richard Perle

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

William J. Brennan

He who is void of virtuous Attachments in private Life, is, or very soon will be void of all Regard for his Country. There is seldom an Instance of a Man guilty of betraying his Country, who had not before lost the Feeling of moral Obligations in his private Connections.

Samuel Adams

The worse government fails, the less privacy citizens supposedly deserve.

James Bovard

Privacy is the right to be alone–the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.

Louis D. Brandeis

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

Margaret Cho

Some people in our country seem more concerned about respecting the dignity and privacy of criminals and terrorists than they are about having an airport full of people obliterated, or a completely booked hotel blown to bits. Perhaps they think, Let's not get so upset about attacks on our embassies or military bases. Maybe, they surmise, the terrorists have good reason for attacking us. We have no right to be harassing innocent people in our country. For some people, not even the grotesque images that filled our television screens after al Qaeda's blatant attacks on 9/11 seem enough to wake them out of their utopia feel-good world.

John David Ashcroft
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