Quotes About Anonymity

Anonymous is like an amoeba: it's got too many different operations run by truly different people which might not share a single person with another operation, but they use the same branding - they are part of the Anonymous brand, just like al-Qaida.

People know my song but they don't know the guy who sings the song.

In social networking sites, individuals hide their identities and indulge in individual attack on celebrities and others. It's a wrong kind of politics.

People love talking about their jobs. Take them out, buy them lunch or take them for a beer and they'll talk about their job, provided they know that you're going to respect their anonymity.

How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

I have no interest in being famous. I'd love to vanish from the public eye as soon as I can.

If it was his goal in life to make as little impression as possible upon history, he achieved it gloriously.

People don't value their obscurity. They don't know what it's like to have it taken away…

O fim da arte é doar somente. (...) Apagar-se no anonimato, Ocultando nossa passagem Pela vida, como à paisagem Oculta a nuvem com recato.

He carried no electronics. No laptop, no cell phone, no walkie-talkie. He carried no ID. Beside his large-caliber Glock, spare magazines, and a knife, there was nothing on his person that could connect him to anything, anyone, or anywhere. That was how professionals worked.

And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches.

I felt it was very important not to be recognized.

Anonymous young men with all-American bone structures.

After that, I felt safer. I didn't want anything I said or did that night to be associated with me and my real name and coming from Boston.

I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions. I have given my name and my day-clothes up to the nurses And my history to the anesthetist and my body to surgeons.

If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

CIVILIZATION is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else.

I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.

I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere.

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

When you've got a mask on, you're kind of invincible. It's almost like nobody can see you, and you can do what you want to do without consequences.

I wanted to be as invisible as possible as an artist. I wanted to differentiate between myself and who I'm writing about.

On social media, I can hide behind the computer or the iPhone. Internet courage.