Quotes about Privacy

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

anything you do in the dark. In other words, it's any act that you try to hide from others. So, what kind of person are you when the shades are drawn? That's really the question. "Integrity," as Dr. Werjonic used to say, "has no private life." But, of course, no one has complete integrity because everyone has things to hide. All of us act differently when no one is watching.

Relating personal problems to associates and customers. Your personal problems are important to you—and only you. Everyone has their share and they don't want to hear about yours.

To be unknown to God is entirely too much privacy.

EVERY one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self. This is the man that I want myself to be but who cannot exist, because God does not know anything about him. And to be unknown of God is altogether too much privacy.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

Everyone holds secrets that need protecting.

My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.

Privacy is a luxury of the well-to-do because most Chileans have none. Middle-class families and below live in very close quarters, in many homes several people sleep in the same bed. When there is more than one room, the dividing walls are so thin that every sigh comes right through.

You lose it if you talk about it.

The time when, most of all, you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

As lacking in privacy as a goldfish.