#privacy

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. ↗

— Edward P. Morgan

#both #breaking #examine #explore #explosive

Where it gets clear for me about the privacy issue is with my kids because they didn't choose this kind of life. I'm an incredibly open person, though - I'll tell anyone anything. ↗

— Carrie-Anne Moss

#anyone #anything #because #choose #clear

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#crammed #each #keep #less #lot

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it. ↗

— Michelle Pfeiffer

#being #being famous #comfortable #control #famous

As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth. ↗

— Richard Posner

#appear #basically #because #conceal #concealment

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

#compensate #cruel #discretion #display #employ

The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#always #being #invading #journalist #judgment

If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#becoming #court #ends #first #first time

No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#deal #disciplined #famous #how #loss

I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl. ↗

— Princess Margaret

#goldfish #i #much #privacy