My husband loves having his own room.
One of the things about the modern world is that the public and the private - which is not the same as the public and the personal - but the public and the private... it's very, very much harder than it used to be to have things that are private and things that are public.
Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet.
It's called a private life for a reason - it's mine, and it's special and sacred.
When I started my blog, I wanted it to be like my house - my own little place that anyone could come to.
Every person is king in his own home.
See {598377} for an English version of this notion.
In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.
My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
A man's head is his castle.
There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.
Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.
The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.
Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.
We should use this public sphere and redefine - beyond China's borders - what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen's privacy begins.