Top 430 Privacy Quotes

Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.
Sarah Chalke
Without a strategic, long-term gameplan to defend our networks from foreign-based 5G threats, we are putting the privacy of American consumers and companies at risk.
Abigail Spanberger
The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook’s privacy bullying.
Evgeny Morozov
There’s always a sense that people will do things quite differently if they think they have privacy.
Peter Thiel
When I was actively working, I had more than my share of limelight. But over the last many years I have been leading a quiet life and I’ve learnt to value my privacy.
Zeenat Aman
We can’t allow somebody to create a service like that, which reveals who’s looking at your page. That’s a violation of privacy.
Tom Anderson
A civic-minded nation is built by civic-minded neighbourhoods, whether in our cities or our villages. Where we respect the next-door person’s space, privacy and rights. Where we do not inconvenience our neighbours – while celebrating a festival or while resorting to a protest or on any other occasion.
Ram Nath Kovind
The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.
Jonathan Zittrain
Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it about telemarketers interrupting your supper with cold calls? It depends. Mainly, of course, it depends on whether you live in a totalitarian or a free society.
James Gleick
I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.
Roger Maris
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
Margaret Cho
I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety.
John Pistole
An autobiography is not about pictures; it’s about the stories; it’s about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people’s privacy.
Boris Becker
SXSW has been a melting pot of ideas and policy on immigration, cybersecurity, privacy, Internet of Things, international trade, and innovation.
Suzan DelBene
In London everyone lives in small spaces so I found living in flatshares easy. I’ve never been bothered about privacy. If I’m home alone I feel a bit weird, I want people to come round.
A. J. Odudu
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
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
As individuals, we have very little say about how our data is being used. I’m not worried about the privacy implications of it so much. But it seems to me that, as an individual, if I’m the one generating the data, I should have some kind of say in how it’s going to be used.
Rick Smolan
I’m giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.
Lia Ices
Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
Vint Cerf
China’s leaders seek to subordinate the rights of the individual to the will of the Communist Party. They exert government control over companies and subvert the privacy and freedom of their citizens with an authoritarian surveillance state.
John Ratcliffe
Just because technological advances have made it easier for the federal government to collect information doesn’t mean that our privacy rights can or should be violated on the ground or in the air.
Suzan DelBene
At times, I lack privacy.
Sergio Busquets
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
The words that a father speaks to his children in the p

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
It’s a weird thing because I’ve been single at the time when I’ve been successful. That’s good and bad. Good, because you meet lots of people, bad because your privacy is infringed, so it’s harder to develop things.
David Walliams
I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.
Tamara Ecclestone
Personal privacy is a closely held American value.
Anna Eshoo
In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.
Roger Mudd
I support safeguarding users’ personally identifiable information and sensitive data like health or financial records. I also believe the government has a responsibility to punish deceptive and unfair practices that defy reasonable expectations about consumers’ privacy.
Marsha Blackburn
Privacy violations affect all of us.
Raphael Warnock
I’ve made sure that I’ve stood for privacy and the rights of the people time and time again.
Cory Gardner
I’m a very private person. I like staying home and doing my stuff. I hate people invading on my privacy. I hate talking about my private life.
Gisele Bundchen
Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your work.
Susan Minot
Oh, well, there’s a difference between privacy and secrecy.
Laura Schlessinger
The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?
Anna Quindlen
Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
Louis Kronenberger
I think everybody should have a certain amount of privacy, even though they are in the public eye, no matter who they are.
Terrell Suggs
Control is what gives you privacy.
Michael Douglas
For men, privacy means not being told stuff that would hurt. For women, secrecy is having stuff go on behind your back.
A. A. Gill
The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans.
Glenn Greenwald
I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there’s a point where one says, that’s for family, that’s for me.
Julie Andrews
In the quest for perfect protection of Sony’s intellectual property, the company threw the privacy and security of their customers under the bus.
Sarah Jeong
Privacy is tremendously important. I believe the American people, and all people, should be skeptical of government power, should ask hard questions: What is the authority? What is the oversight? That’s the way it ought to be.
James Comey
I can’t understand why anyone would want to live the life of a politician if you can’t say pretty much what you think. You are not in it for the money: there’s unremitting pressure on your life, you give up so much of your privacy. It can only be because of the things you want to do and the things you want to say.
Ken Livingstone
I have no plans to go public if I get into a relationship. I will do my best to safeguard the privacy of the person I love and respect her feelings.
Song Joong-ki
Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people’s privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.
Darrell Issa
The Gun Owner Privacy Act protects the right to keep and bear arms by preventing the Feds from collecting data to monitor and log gun ownership in America. This legislation will give Americans legal recourse and the ability to sue the Feds and collect damages for records illegally stored.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
After becoming an actor, it’s the privacy that I miss.
Rakul Preet Singh
On a deeper level, there’s a level of privacy that I need in order to work, and if there’s been a time when there’s been a lot of publicness in my life, it can be a little bit difficult to sort of rebuild that private space.
Stacey D’Erasmo
With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. Hotels are now out of the question for my wife and I.
Robert Powell
Just like anyone else, I want privacy at times, but I understand that I am a celebrity.
G-Dragon
I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential – especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.
Susan Orlean
Privacy is dead. We live in a world of instantaneous, globalised gossip. The idea that there is a ‘private’ sphere and a ‘public’ sphere for world leaders, politicians or anyone in the public eye is slowly disintegrating. The death of privacy will have a profound effect on who our leaders will be in the future.
Gavin Esler
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
Ultimately, the reason privacy is so vital is it's the

Ultimately, the reason privacy is so vital is it’s the realm in which we can do all the things that are valuable as human beings. It’s the place that uniquely enables us to explore limits, to test boundaries, to engage in novel and creative ways of thinking and being.
Glenn Greenwald