#privacy

I don't think when people sign up for a life of doing something they love to do they should have to sign up for a complete loss of privacy. I understand a little loss of privacy coming with the job. ↗

— Sarah Chalke

#complete #doing #i #job #life

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone. ↗

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

#paradox #privacy #life

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." [Olmstead v. U.S. (1928)] ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#encroachment #freedom #government #liberty #policy

No, solitude did not trouble her. She could spend long minutes gazing out the window, hours listening to the BBC on the public radio station. She relished the very texture of her privacy, its depth of space and freedom, much of an entire day hers alone. ↗

— Daphne Kalotay

#privacy #solitude #freedom

In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#clear #dark #disguise #glass #heart

[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#deification #kim-jong-il #north-korea #personal-life #privacy

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#company #privacy #solitude #solitude

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#privacy #solitude #solitude

There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#privacy #secret #wisdom #faith

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy. ↗