Quotes About Anonymity

If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.

Ever think of introducing yourself? Y.T. says. Nah, he says, people always forget names. You can just think of me as that one guy, y'know?

Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game

Anybody who's lived in the ghetto knows that you don't move during the daytime. Here's why: You don't want anyone to know you're leaving, and you don't want anyone knowing where you're going.

I love being a mum. Sometimes I just wish nobody knew who I was.

I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.

People feel so much more comfortable bullying behind a screen than in person. It gives them a mystique and makes them say things that they would never be strong enough to say in person.

I think the thing that bothers me is that there's a component of the Internet where people can write really nasty things anonymously.

I can claim copyright only in myself, and occasionally in those who are either dead or have written about the same events, or who have a decent expectation of anonymity, or who are such appalling public shits that they have forfeited their right to bitch.

qué influencia tuvieron Gemma sobre Dante o Helena sobre Descartes, por no hablar de las muchísimas esposas que la historia ignora? ¿Y si todas las obras de Aristóteles en realidad las hubiera escrito su esposa Erpilis? Nunca lo sabremos. La historia, escrita por los maridos, ha condenado a las esposas al anonimato.

Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs shelter.

Tudo o que tinha sido a sua vida desapareceu, incluindo o nome; deixou de ser Jean Valjean, para ser apenas o número 24601. O que aconteceu à sua irmã? O que aconteceu às sete crianças? Quem se preocupa com isso? O que é que acontece a um punhado de folhas de um arbusto esmagado pelos pés de quem passa?

Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.

It is really quite extraordinary that some people should speak to us of tyranny in the present Party: tyranny of bosses, tyranny of elected parliamentary deputies. I don't know what means the deputies employ today to exercise their tyranny, but at least you know who they are, and you can take their means away from them. From where will you take them tomorrow? From anonymities, from unknown persons, from masks.

If you don't want them to find you, changing your last name seems a fairly elementary first step. Trust me, I'm an expert. I've watched a lot of spy movies.

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

No one cared who they'd been before, or even who they were now. Sometimes it felt like they lived at the bottom of the world. People at the bottom of the world mind their business, mostly.

Zarathustra: Do you have words? Do your words belong to you? Giannina: No, my answer is no. I have no property in the dictionary. Words are anonymous like the disenfranchised masses that haven't been weighed - or named - or framed. My words belong to those who don't belong.

Que haya palabra y se vea su silencio, y, en este silencio, aparezca por un instante la cosa restituida a su anonimato, al no tener todavía o ya no tener nombre.

What made the Internet so appealing was precisely that it afforded the ability to speak and act anonymously, which is so vital to individual exploration.

For many kids, the Internet is a means of self-actualization. It allows them to explore who they are and who they want to be, but that works only if we're able to be private and anonymous, to make mistakes without them following us.

I find it slightly uncomfortable to see my face on a bus or a poster. I like just being known by my friends and family.

And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.

The nice thing about Reddit is, we don't have to sell your data or build a profile of you or do stuff that makes people feel uncomfortable.