Privacy Quotes

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
Marilyn Monroe

Career, Talent, Public

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn Rand

Men, Society, Free

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
Bill Cosby

Father, Child, Times

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.
Johnny Depp

Life, Money, Normal

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
Ron Paul

Government, Society, Free

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
Billy Graham

Lost, Once, Realize

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Soul, Last, Sarcasm

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
Andy Rooney

Sad, Blessed, Moment

I believe in a zone of privacy.
Hillary Clinton

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.
Jim Carrey

Respect, Happy, Try

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.
Stephen Hawking

Become, Write, Public

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.
Alanis Morissette

Peace, Time, Mind

When you fall in love, you wanna share it with people but you know there are some things that you need to keep to yourself, 'cause privacy makes things last longer, I feel.
Brandy Norwood

Love, Yourself, Keep

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.
Tiger Woods

Family, Within, Matters

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
Charles Caleb Colton

Society, Down, Living

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
J. K. Rowling

Respect, Live, Big

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
Jean Paul

Home, End, Father

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
Richard M. Nixon

Cannot, Advice, President

I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.
Princess Margaret

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

Entitled, Merely, Absolute

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I'm very grateful for the support and kindness that we've gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband's policies or what have you, they care about children and that's been good to see.
Michelle Obama

Good, Husband, Kindness

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
Marshall McLuhan

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.
Christopher Hitchens

School, Made, Small

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Marquis de Sade

Today, Long, Silence

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

Experience, Learning, Thought

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.
Luis Gutierrez

Health, Year, Rights

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
John Updike

Truth, Woman, Her

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.
Hugh Jackman

Family, Time, Business

I like the privacy of my life and I protect it quite vigilantly.
Nicole Kidman

Life, Quite, Protect

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Life, Time, Important

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