Privacy Quotes

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual. Earl Warren

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing. Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury

The 4th Amendment protects the individual’s privacy in a variety of settings. In none is the zone of privacy more clearly defined than when bounded by the unambiguous physical dimensions of an individual’s home. John Paul Stevens

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. William Orville Douglas

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

Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private. Lyndon Baines Johnson