Quotes About Anonymity

There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.

To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.

There's nothing I like more than to have one of our movies run, and then I go to the ladies' room and listen to everybody talk about it. No one has any idea who I am.

People know me as 'Wipeout Girl' or 'Mercury Girl.' They never know my name, and sometimes, maybe that's a good thing.

But if you think of all the people who don't like me, just think of all the millions who've never heard of me!

Entre la rencontre obligatoire du village (l'horreur) et l'anonymat total des mégapoles (l'enfer), Paris est la ville aux proportions justes.

So many people make a name now-a-days, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity.

Are you the man who reads phone books?

It was her peculiar curse to never really be unknown.

I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.

While I am an active participant, I can never accept the impersonality of the system. It is like looting on the most personal level. At least I would give this victim a name. Death in anonymity would not be added to the list of violations he or she would suffer.

Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

I was husband for a week. Changed the baby's diapers. There's somebody in a suburb in Melbourne who doesn't even know i wiped his ass

the psychological effect of the statistical world picture: it displaces the individual in favor of anonymous units that pile up into mass formations.

The same way others become people we select for inclusion in our lives: We learn enough about them, they pass several of our tests, they lose their anonymity, and we discover an acceptable degree of shared values. The

aphoristic posts on the Cypherpunks list, the

He looked like some unidentified person in a nineteenth-century photograph.

Ideally there should be no detectable connection between any two Observers, so that the loss of one would not entail the loss of any other.

Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

For a lot of people, 4chan is their tree house - they go there to hang out. You can actually see the culture shift with time zone. Seeing how threads unwind and unravel is just a thrill, and you can't really share that magic.

It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.

If you would know and not be known, live in a city.

I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.

People hide behind fake names to tweet negative comments, and I hate that. If you have something to say, own up to it.