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PRETENTIONS --- PRIDE --- PRINCIPLES
PRIORITIES --- PRISON
PRIVACY

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PRETENTIONS

see: "VANITY"
see "DECEPTION" for other related links


Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,— vanity or
hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in
order to purchase applause; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor
to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appearance
of their opposite virtues.
--Henry Fielding (1707—1754)
English novelist and dramatist.
_The Adventures of Joseph Andrews_ [1742] "Author's Preface"

We all wear some disguise, make some professions,
use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being
better than we are; and yet it is not denied that
we have some good intentions and praiseworthy
qualities at bottom.
--William Hazlitt (1778—1830)
English essayist.
_Sketches and Essays_ [1839], "On Cant and Hypocrisy"

Put silk on a goat, and it's still a goat.
--Irish Proverb

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts
to display qualities which he does not possess, and
to gain applause which he cannot keep.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
_The Rambler_ (English twice-weekly journal 1750—1752), #189

It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once
on them, it is still with our legs that we must
walk. And on the highest throne in the world
we are still sitting on our own ass.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
_Essais_ (Essays) {94 chapters written 1571—1580 & published 1580;
the last 13 chapters were written 1585—1587 & published 1588 }.
"Of Experience"

Those who wish to appear wise among
fools, among the wise appear foolish.
--Quintilian (c. 35—100)
Roman rhetorician.
_De Institution Oratoria_

No one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his
part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened
to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything
finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860)
German philosopher.
_Studies in Pessimism_ [1851]

It's a naοve domestic Burgundy without any breeding,
but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
--James Thurber (1894—1961)
Caption for _New Yorker_ cartoon [27 March 1937].

To act with common sense according to the moment, is
the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to
do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit
respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that
has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it
is; and despise affectation.
--Horace Walpole (1717—1797)
English writer and connoisseur.

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ostentation [os-ten-TAY-shuhn], noun:
Excessive or pretentious display; boastful showiness.
Ex.: The Puritan leadership was especially distressed by
the sartorial ostentation of the lower classes, who were
supposed to content themselves with 'raiment suitable
to the order in which God's providence has placed them.'
--Patricia O'Toole,
_Money & Morals in America: A History _

pretentious (adj.) [pri-'ten-shuh s]
Full of pretense; that is, ostentatious, assuming dignity or importance.

tarradiddle, noun:
1. A petty falsehood; a fib.
2. Pretentious nonsense.




PRIDE

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see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links


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The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he
deserves; and the more he thinks he deserves,
the less he really does deserve.
--Henry Ward Beecher (1813—1887)
American Congregational minister; brother of
Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher.
_Royal Truths_ [1866]


A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he
never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
--Henry Ward Beecher (1813—1887)
American Congregational minister; brother of
Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher.
In Henry Ward Beecher and Edna Dean Proctor, _Life Thoughts: Gathered
From the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher_, p. 115 [1858].

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Pride goeth before destruction, and
a haughty spirit before a fall.
--Bible
"Proverbs" 16:18

One ov the best temporary cures for pride and
affektashun that i have ever seen tried iz sea
sickness; a man who wants tew vomit never
puts on airs.
--Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818—1885)
American humorist.
_Josh Billings' Wit and Humor_ [1874] "Ods and Ens"

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment
between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and
look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say,
"Oh, nothing!" Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing
when it only urges us to hide our own hurts — not to hurt
others.
--George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819—1880)
English novelist.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard
to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle
it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every
now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps,
often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had
completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Autobiography_, ch. 9 [1798]

When a proud Man hears another praised,
he thinks himself injured.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
English writer and physician.
Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_ [1732]

Be humble, learn thyself to scan;
Know, pride was never made for man.
--John Gay (1685—1732)
English poet and dramatist.
"The Man and the Flea"

My family pride is something inconceivable.
I can't help it. I was born sneering.
--W. S. Gilbert (1836—1911)
English writer of comic and satirical verse.
_The Mikado_, act I [1885]

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride,
can be a substitute for self-respect.
--Eric Hoffer (1902—1983)
American longshoreman, philosopher,
and author who received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1982.
_The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms_ [1954], Aphorism 38.

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Nature . . . endowed us with pride to spare us
the pain of knowing our imperfections.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Maxims_, 36, [1665], tr. Louis Kronenberger [1959]


Pride . . . is never so well disguised and able to
take people in as when masquerading as humility.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Maxims_, 254, [1665], tr. Leonard Tancock [1959]


There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest,
which makes us desire to know what may be useful to us;
another is from pride, and arises from a desire of knowing
what others are ignorant of.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Maxims_ [1665]

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I pointed out a moment ago that the more pride
one had, the more one disliked pride in others.
In fact, if you want to find out how proud you
are, the easiest way is to ask yourself, "How
much do I dislike it when other people snub me,
or refuse to take any notice of me, or shove
their oar in, or patronize me, or show off?"
The point is that each person's pride is in
competition with every one else's pride. It is
because I wanted to be the big noise at the
party that I am so annoyed at someone else
being the big noise.
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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something,
only out of having more of it than the next man.
--C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (1898—1963)
British scholar and novelist.
_Mere Christianity_, bk. 3, ch. 8 [1952]

One may be humble out of pride.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
_Essais_ (Essays) [pub. 1580—1588] "Of Presumption"

The devil, proud spirit, cannot endure to be mocked.
--Thomas Moore (1779—1852)
Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician.

'I have done that,' says my memory. 'I cannot have
done that' — says my pride, and remains adamant.
At last — memory yields.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.
_Beyond Good and Evil_ [1885-1886],
tr. William Kaufmann [1966].

Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?
--Laurence J. Peter (1919—1990)
Canadian teacher and author.

Pride is therefore pleasure arising from
a man's thinking too highly of himself.
--Benedict de Spinoza (1632—1677)
Dutch-Jewish philosopher, the foremost exponent
of 17th century Rationalism.
_Ethics_ [1677] pt. III

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hubris [HYOO-bruhs], noun:
Overbearing pride or presumption.

vainglory [VAYN-glor-ee; vayn-GLOR-ee], noun:
1. Excessive pride in one's achievements, abilities, qualities, etc.
2. Vain display.



PRINCIPLES

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see "CHARACTER" for related links


It is always easier to fight for one's
principles than to live up to them.
--Alfred Adler (1870—1937)
Austrian psychologist.
In Phyllis Bottome
_Alfred Adler: Apostle of Freedom_ [1939].

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
--Everett McKinley Dirksen (1896—1959)
American congressman and senator.
In Mardy Grothe _Oxymoronica_, p. 27 [2004].

Whenever two good people argue over
principles, they are both right.
--attributed to Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830—1916)
Austrian writer.

Those who stand for nothing
fall for anything.
--Alex Hamilton (b. 1936)
British writer and broadcaster.
"Born Old" (radio broadcast),
quoted in "Listener" [9 November 1978].

When a fellow says, 'It hain't the money, but
the principle o' the thing,' it's th' money.
--Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard (1868—1930)
American humorist.
_Abe Martin: Hoss Sense and Nonsense_ [1926]

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In matter of principle, stand like a rock; in
matters of taste, swim with the current.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].


Every honest man will suppose honest acts to
flow from honest principles, and the rogues
may rail without intermission.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
In a letter to Benjamin Rush [20 December 1801].

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The probability that we may fail in the struggle
ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865)
American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865].

It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.
--Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902—1985)
American senator and diplomat.
In a 1952 conversation with Republican leaders,
quoted in Richard Norton Smith
_Thomas E. Dewey and His Times_ [1982].

Give us clear vision, that we may know where to stand
and what to stand for — because unless we stand for
something, we shall fall for anything.
--Peter Marshall (1902—1949)
Clergyman, author, and Senate chaplain.
In a Senate prayer [1947].

A thing moderately good is not so good as it
ought to be. Moderation in temper is always
a virtue, but moderation in principle is always
a vice.
--Thomas Paine [spelled Pane prior to 1774] (1737—1809)
English-American writer and political pamphleteer.
_The Rights of Man_ [1792], pt. II, ch. 5

One, with God, is always a majority, but many
a martyr has been burned at the stake while
the votes were being counted.
--Thomas Brackett Reed (1839—1902)
American lawyer and politician.
In a speech in the House of Representatives [1885].

There is nothing so bad or good that you will not
find an Englishman doing it; but you will never find
an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything
on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles;
he robs you on business principles; he enslaves
you on imperial principles.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist
propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.]
_The Man of Destiny_ [1898]

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
--Adlai E. Stevenson (1900—1965)
American Democratic politician.
"The Nature of Patriotism", speech in New York City [27 August 1952].

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If you mean whiskey, the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the
bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys
the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread
from the mouths of little children; if you mean that evil drink that
topples Christian men and women from the pinnacles of righteous
and gracious living into the bottomless pits of degradation, shame,
despair, helplessness, and hopelessness, then, my friend, I am
opposed to it with every fibre of my being.

However, if by whiskey you mean the oil of conversation, the
philosophic wine, the elixir of life, the ale that is consumed when
good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts and the
warm glow of contentment in their eyes; if you mean Christmas
cheer, the stimulating sip that puts a little spring in the step of an
elderly gentleman on a frosty morning; if you mean that drink that
enables man to magnify his joy, and to forget life's great tragedies
and heartbreaks and sorrow; if you mean that drink the sale of which
pours into Texas treasuries untold millions of dollars each year, that
provides tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our
deaf, our dumb, our pitifully aged and infirm, to build the finest
highways, hospitals, universities, and community colleges in this
nation, then my friend, I am absolutely, unequivocally in favour of
it.

This is my position, and as always, I refuse to be compromised on
matters of principle.

--Noah S. "Soggy" Sweat, Jr. (1922—1996)
American judge and politician.
[1952 speech]

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My policies are based not on some economic theory, but
on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an
honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within
your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your
bills on time; support the police.
--Margaret Thatcher (1925— )
British conservative stateswoman and Prime Minister [1979—1990].
Quoted in Chris Ogden _Maggie: An Intimate
Portrait of a Woman in Power_, p. 342 [1990].

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These are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
Quoted in "Legal Times" [7 February 1983].
(Often attributed to Groucho Marx.)


Principles have no real force except
when one is well fed.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.

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I make no defense of expediency, military, political, temporary,
or otherwise. For I believe the moral losses of expediency always
far outweigh the temporary gains. And I believe that every drop
of blood saved through expediency will be paid for by twenty
drawn by the sword.
--Wendell Wilkie (1892—1944)
American lawyer and the Republican nominee
for the 1940 presidential election (won by FDR).
_One World_ [1943]

Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt,
And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.
--Edward Young (1683—1765)
English poet.
"To Mr. Pope" (epistle I, l. 283)

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reprobate (noun)
A morally unprincipled person.
Synonym: miscreant



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PRIORITIES

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see: "IMPORTANT"
see "SUCCESS" for other related links


One resolution I have made, and try always to keep,
is this: "To rise above little things."
--John Burroughs (1837—1921)
American naturalist and writer.

You have to decide what your highest priorities
are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly,
nonapologetically -- to say "no" to other things.
And the way you do that is by having a bigger
"yes" burning inside.
--Stephen Covey (1932— )
American author.
_The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People_

It is easier to be a "humanitarian" than to render your own country
its proper due; it is easier to be a "patriot" than to make your
community a better place to live in; it is easier to be a "civic leader"
than to treat your own family with loving understanding; for the
smaller the focus of attention, the harder the task.
--Sydney J. Harris (1917—1986)
American journalist.

If you were going to die soon and had only one
phone call you could make, who would you call
and what would you say? And why are you
waiting?
--Stephen Levine (1937— )
American autor and poet.
In Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen
_Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Stories to Open
the Heart & Rekindle the Spirit_, p. 111 [1993].

Kissing your hand may make you feel very, very good,
but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
--Anita Loos (1893—1981)
American novelist and Hollywood screenwriter.
_Gentlemen Prefer Blondes_ [1925]

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Louis XV (1710—1774)
King of France [1715—1774]

Louis was playing cards with members of his
entourage when a certain M. de Chauvelin was
stricken by a fit of apoplexy, of which he died.
'M. de Chauvelin is ill,' exclaimed a courtier,
seeing him fall. Louis turned and surveyed
the fallen body coldly. 'Ill?' he said. 'He is
dead. Take him away. Spades are trumps,
gentlemen.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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Whatever it is, if it doesn't make you happy, walk
away, give it away to someone else who wants it.
Let it be THEIR next dream; let it flee from you.
You're emptying out your limitations when you do
that. Then you have ROOM to grow, to allow
magnificent things to fill the vacuum of those
seemingly empty places. When you hold onto
yesterday, when you hold onto dead and dying
adventures, you have no room in your box for
greatness.
--Ramtha

When your schedule leaves you brain-drained and
stressed to exhaustion, it's time to give up
something. Delegate. Say "No." Be brutal. It's
like cleaning out a closet--after a while, it
gets easier to get rid of things. You discover
that you really didn't need them anyway.
--Marilyn Ruman

The church is near but the road is icy; the
tavern is far away but I will walk carefully.
--Russian proverb

Superfluous branches We lop away that bearing
boughs may live.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Richard II_ [1595]

It is not worthwhile to go around the world
to count the cats in Zanzibar.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862)
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher.

We hear of a silent generation, more concerned
with security than integrity, with conforming
than performing, with imitating than creating.
--Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (1874—1956)
American industrialist and founder of IBM.




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PRISON

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see "CRIME & PUNISHMENT" for related links


A robin red breast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a rage.
--William Blake (1757—1827)
English poet.
_Auguries of Innocence_, l. 5 [c. 1803]

Better build schoolrooms for 'the boy',
Than cells and gibbets for 'the man'.
--Eliza Cook (1818—1889)
English poet.
"A Song for the Ragged Schools" [1853]

The degree of civilization in a society is revealed by entering its prisons.
--Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821—1881)
Russian novelist, journalist, and short story writer.
_The House of the Dead_ [1862] , tr. Constance Garnett [1957]

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[Guantanamo is] a model prison, where people are
better treated than in Belgian prisons.
--Alain Grignard,
visiting Guantanamo in 2006 with a delegation
from the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe.

& note:

[...] A Reuters dispatch from Moscow, dated Aug. 8, 2003,
reported that Amina Khasanova, whose son was a detainee
there, told a Russian newspaper that she was "terribly
scared of a Russian prison or a Russian court" for him and
hence presumably was in no hurry to have him released.
"At Guantanamo they treat him humanely, the conditions
are fine," she said.

Her son, Andrei Bakhitov, one of the eight Russian detainees
at Guantanamo, had written her: "I think that there is not
even a health resort in Russia on the level of this place."

--Richard Pipes
"Letter to the Editor"
_The Wall Street Journal_ [5 June 2009]

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I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons
are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded
hell holes where the inmates are treated like
animals with absolutely not one humane thought
given to what they are going to do once they are
released. You're an animal in a cage and you're
treated like one.
--Jimmy Hoffa (1913—1975 {disappeared})
American labor leader.
_Hoffa: The Real Story_ [1975]

A governor of a certain state was visiting the state prison, and stopped to talk
with a number of prisoners. They told him their story, and in every instance it
was one of wrong suffered by an innocent person. There was one man,
however, who admitted his crime and the justice of his sentence. 'I must
pardon you,' said the governor; 'I can't have you in here corrupting all
these good men.'
--Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865)
American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865].
In _Lincoln's Wit_ [1958]

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague.
Criminals collected together corrupt each other;
they are worse than ever when at the termination
of their punishment they re-enter society.
--Napoleon I (1769—1821)
Emperor of France [1804—1815].

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find
little reform needed in our prisons.
--John Ruskin (1819—1900)
English art and social critic.
_Unto This Last_, essay 2 [1862]

I never go to a menagerie because I cannot endure the sight
of the misery of the captive animals. The exhibiting of
trained animals I abhor. What an amount of suffering and
cruel punishment the poor creatures have to endure in order
to give a few moments' pleasure to men devoid of all thought
and feeling for them!
--Albert Schweitzer (1875—1965)
Franco-German theologian, philosopher, and mission doctor.
_Memories of Childhood and Youth_ [1949]

Any one who has been to an English public school
will always feel comparatively at home in prison.
--Evelyn Waugh (1903—1966)
English novelist.
_Decline and Fall_, pt. 3, ch. 4 [1928]

We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
--John Webster (c.1580—c.1625)
English dramatist.
_The White Devil_, 5.4 [1612]

I want to see the word laogai in every dictionary in every language
in the world. I want to see the laogai ended. Before 1974, the
word "gulag" did not appear in any dictionary. Today, this single
word conveys the meaning of Soviet political violence and its
labor camp system. "Laogai" also deserves a place in our
dictionaries.
--Harry Wu (1937— )
Chinese-born American political activist.
In "Washington Post" [26 May 1996].

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A man escaped jail by digging a hole from his jail cell to the outside
world. When finally his work was done, he emerged in the middle
of a preschool playground. “I’m free, I’m free!” he shouted.

“So what,” said a little girl. “I’m four.”

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gulag (noun) ['gu-lahg]
One of the prison camps spread across the Soviet Union
from Vladimir, Russia eastward used ostensibly to reeducate
criminals, most of whom were political prisoners until the rise
of Khrushchev. A particularly harsh prison.

immure [ih-MYUR], transitive verb:
1. To enclose within walls, or as if within walls; hence,
to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.
2. To build into a wall.
3. To entomb in a wall.
Ex.: Not surprisingly, Sally shuddered at the thought of being
immured in the black cave, to die slowly and hopelessly, far
below the sunny hillside.
--Peter Pierce,
"The Fiction of Gabrielle Lord,"
Australian Literary Studies [October 1999]
Synonyms: cloister, imprison, incarcerate.

oubliette (Noun) [oo-bli-'yet]
A cell or dungeon room with only a trapdoor
at the top for entry and exit.






PRIVACY

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from government: see "FREEDOM" for related links
at home: see "HOME & FAMILY" for related links


The public good is in nothing more essentially
interested, than in the protection of every
individual's private rights.
--William Blackstone (1723—1780)
English jurist.

They [the makers of the Constitution] conferred,
as against the government, the right to be let
alone—the most comprehensive of rights and
the right most valued by civilized men.
--Louis Brandeis (1856—1941)
American lawyer and associate justice of
the U.S. Supreme Court [1916—1939].
In a dissenting Supreme Court opinion
"Olnstead v. United States" [1928].

Let every man mind his own business.
--Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616)
Spanish novelist.
_Don Quixote de la Mancha_ [1605-1615]

If you would be known and not know, vegetate in
a village. If you would know and not be known,
live in a city.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.

I never said, `I want to be alone.' I only said,
`I want to be left alone.' There is all the
difference.
--Greta Garbo [Greta Lovisa Gustafsson]
(1905—1990) Swedish actress.

New York City is a place where one can
weep on the sidewalk in perfect privacy.
--Edward Hirsch (b. 1950)
American poet.
"Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man" (essay)
in _A William Maxwell Portrait_ [2004]

In Czechoslovakia there is no such thing as freedom of the
press. In the United States there is no such thing as freedom
from the press.
--Martina Navratilova (1957— )
Czech-born American tennis player.
Quoted in Lee Green _Sportswit_ [1984].

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the
forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake
— the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter
— the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot
enter! — all his forces dare not cross the threshold of
the ruined tenement.
--William Pitt, the Elder, also called (from 1766)
1st Earl of Chatham (1708—1778)
British statesman, twice virtual prime minister
[1756—1761, 1766—1768].
House of Commons speech [March 1763]

The Fourth Amendment, and the personal rights
which it secures, have a long history. At the very
core stands the right of a man to retreat into his
own home and there be free from unreasonable
governmental intrusion.
--Potter Stewart (1915—1985)
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1958—1981].
On electronic eavesdropping, "Silverman v. United States" [1961].

If the country ever finds itself in an uncomfortable
position with respect to privacy, it will not be the
result of a grand collusion executing a master plan.
Rather, it will be the end point of a series of decisions,
each made by a bureaucrat; and each having been
seen, at the time, as a valuable thing to have done
and serving a commendable social cause.
--Willis Ware,
_NorthStar_ [29 September 1996]

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The right of the people to be secure in their persons,
houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable
searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no
warrents shall issue but upon probable cause, supported
by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the
place to be searched, and the persons or things to
be seized.
--Constitution of the United States,
Fourth Amendment [15 December 1791].


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