Quotes about Privacy

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

You have a brain and mind of your own. USE IT, and reach your own decisions. If you need facts or information from other people, to enable you to reach decisions, as you probably will in many instances; acquire these facts or secure the information you need quietly, without disclosing your purpose.

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.

Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.

The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In another time, in another place it might be held to be a public matter. But in this place, in this time, it is not. It is my bussines, mine alone. 'This place being what?' 'This place being South Africa

Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

Ultimately there's a dirty secret about the Internet, which is nothing disappears. All these companies have all your information. They have your search history.

A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.

I don't have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.

I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.