#privacy

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#privacy #public-image #secrecy #life

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

#free #governmental #individual #intrusion #married

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#privacy #reading-secrets #men

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

#bring #closing #comfort #conversely #door

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born. ↗

— José Saramago

#inspiration #privacy #inspirational

At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#end #people #privacy #some #want

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#command #exchange #gives #his #history

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern! ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#dictatorship #gandhi #politics #privacy #religion

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public. ↗

— Clay Shirky

#internet #privacy #communication

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#death #intimacy #life #poetry #privacy