Privacy

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

— Privacy

The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

— Privacy

There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions—a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.

— Privacy

Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private. I have urged Congress—except when the Nation's security is at stake—to take action to that end.

— Privacy

Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.

— Privacy

Privacy is a luxury; to buy it you need to be able to buy space and fit locks, to switch off the phone and live without fear of dependency on others. Privacy is a peculiarly twentieth-century concept, an artefact of the Western urban middle classes: Before then, only the super rich could afford it, and since the invention of e-mail and the mobile phone, it has largely slipped away.

— Privacy

Privacy is the space bad people need to do bad things in.

— Privacy

You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.

— Privacy