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“The people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how suspect or strange they may appear to others. Ancillary to that principle is the conclusion that an individual must also have absolute privacy over whatever information he may generate in the course of testing his opinions and beliefs.”

“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.”

America Wealth Secret Absolutes Sake Privacy Mobility Personal Freedom Money And Power

Book:Slouching towards Bethlehem

Source: Slouching towards Bethlehem

“May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.”

Trying May Matter Life Is Clear Fashion Absolutes Agree Privacy Relevant Multiple What Matters Irrelevant Private Life Crystals Ambiguous

Book:Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

“Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.”

Absolutes Privacy Entitled Prerequisites Invading

Author:Marlon Brando

“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.”

“An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.”

Men Giving Grows Power Honest Honesty Morality Please Absolutes Privacy Abandoned Pillars Impunity

Book:Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders.”

Government Able Order Records Security Communication Gains Absolutes Court Access Agency Appropriate Privacy Government Agencies Electronic Communication

Author:Dorothy E. Denning