Balls Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone…

— Bell Hooks

Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we…

— Mary Alice Monroe

There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. That one of the biggest transformations we have seen in human…

— Philip K. Dick

Privacy is important to me. But it's not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don't want anyone to know my business.…

— Natalie Dormer

“The subjectivity of privacy can be prolonged and multiplied in a family, it can even become so strong that its weight is felt in…

— Hannah Arendt

There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society…

— Philip K. Dick

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously…

— Anton Chekhov

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place

— Kate Millett

Listen, every person has to have a bit of privacy in their life. There are certain things I hold very dear and secret.

— Jessica Mulroney

Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most of us…

— Robert Fulghum

Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.

— Jill Lepore