363 Quotes About Privacy

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.

There is a common superstition that “self-respect” is a kind of charm against snakes, something that keeps those who have it locked in some unblighted Eden, out of strange beds, ambivalent conversations, and trouble in general. It does not at all. It has nothing to do with the face of things, but concerns instead a separate peace, a private reconciliation.

I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.

Next, I went in the shower to lather every inch of my body and stayed for so long inside, I walked away with soggy fingertips. I think we should have soggy fingertips at least once a day. The shower is the only place we can be ourselves before they take us away again.

Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.

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

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., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) (dissenting)]

Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person.""That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said.""All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it.""But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace.