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Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the cave, the tribal teepee, the pueblo, the community fortress, man emerged to build himself a house of his own with a shelter in it for himself and his diversions. Every age has seen it so. The poor might have to huddle together in cities for need's sake, and the frontiersman cling to his neighbors for the sake of protection. But in each civilization, as it advanced, those who could afford it chose the luxury of a withdrawing-place. – Phyllis McGinley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules. – Joan Didion	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part. – Emma Goldman	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy. – Philip R. Zimmermann	added by anonymous 13 years ago
What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten. – Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home. – James Thurber	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Justice: To seek it, one must be willing to give up the right to privacy, as nothing more private will become more public. – Brian K. Blackden, 1996	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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. – Ricther	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy. – Johnson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs. – Richard Milhous Nixon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone. – William F Claire	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. – Herbert Clark Hoover	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy. – Danny McGoorty	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. – Charles Langbridge Morgan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The fantastic advances in the field of communication constitute a grave danger to the privacy of the individual. – Earl Warren	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary. – Margaret Cho	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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