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Privacy Quotes


"Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files."


"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."


"All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing."


"It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true."


"You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kid's face? OK with them. And I'm not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for."


"I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all."


"If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears."


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


"I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened."


"When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often."


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


"The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist."


"It can feel like an invasion of privacy, involving an employer in a personal matter."


"I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test."


"Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can."


"I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on."


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