Contemporary Quote by John Perry Barlow

Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.

— Bruce Schneier

“the desire for privacy is shared by us all as an essential, not ancillary, part of what it means to be human. We all…

— Glenn Greenwald

As the law catches up and the battle between corporate profits and social good plays out, we need to be careful not to be…

— Hannah Fry

I suspect privacy is a very new concept to humanity.

— Helen Fisher

Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that…

— Diana Trilling

The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence.…

— Anonymous

“Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing. In the…

— Nick Harkaway

“The sacrifice of selfish privacy which is daily demanded of us is daily repaid a hundredfold in the true growth of personality which the…

— C.S. Lewis

“For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We…

— Bruce Schneier

We do need to rethink privacy. I think we need to fall back on (former Supreme Court Justice) Felix Frankfurter's definition of privacy which…

— Paul Saffo

Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can be a liability. But…

— Douglas Rushkoff

As much as we're out here performing, I think it's necessary that we have our times of privacy as well when things aren't going…

— Bryson DeChambeau