Quotes About Anonymity

Simply stated, sometimes journalists can only get their information from informants who must remain anonymous in order to protect their careers and sometimes even their lives: Watergate: Confidential sources. The Pentagon Papers: Confidential sources. Enron: Confidential sources.

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.

I guess there might come a point when I will want to live an anonymous life. I'm only at the start of my career, so I'm sure that moment will come, but I know how blessed I am to have this platform on which to speak and influence.

Now that people know who I am, I get offered plays here and there. It was so much easier to do it when nobody knew who I was. I can't even imagine that somebody would come and pay money just to come and see me now.

Most of the time, I'm pleased that people don't recognize me. But I don't hate it when they do.

I love Cleveland; I'll always want to fight there. But there's a lot going on in New York. I'd like to go somewhere I'm not known as well.

A lot of young people have not a clue what being famous entails. When you lose your anonymity you can't walk down the street without people looking at you.

I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

The Pirate Bay is not in Sweden. It's a distributed system. We don't know where the servers are. We gave them to people we trust and they don't know it's The Pirate Bay.

We don't swim for the attention. We don't swim to be rock stars. There is something beautiful about being in an anonymous sport and being fairly anonymous. It enables you do something you love without any of the other effects.

I wish there was a switch that I could flip, where no one knows me. And then, when I'm ready to make a splash, I'd flip the switch and say, 'Hey, I'm ready now.' Unfortunately, that doesn't happen.

I like to remain somewhat anonymous. I could never handle the whole Britney Spears syndrome of being noticed everywhere.

nous avons toujours regretté que les habitudes de l'époque actuelle ne nous aient pas permis de faire paraître nos ouvrages sous le couvert du plus strict anonymat, ce qui eût tout au moins évité à certains d'écrire beaucoup de sottises, et à nous-même d'avoir trop souvent la peine de les relever et de les rectifier. (Études Traditionnelles, juillet-août 1950, Métaphysique et dialectique, note 4)

Vaya usted a saber quién soy yo.

When I see your picture in its frame, A strait jacket, pity rises in me, And stronger than pity, revulsion. It is as if you had never been. Nobody in the world can know your love, You are strapped to the nothingness of ages, Nobody can will you into life, It is as if you had never been. I cannot break your anonymity, The absolute has imprisoned you, Most sentient, most prescient, most near. It is as if you had never been.

People who used the web turned strange. In public panels, they disguised their sexes, their ages, their names. They logged on to the electronic fray, adopting every violent persona but their own.

The web began to seem a vast, silent stock exchange trading in ever more anonymous and hostile pen pals.

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

God has worked anonymously since the very beginning—it has always been an inside and secret sort of job. The Spirit seems to work best underground. When aboveground, humans start fighting about it.

The last thing she wanted was people looking for her. No, that wasn't true--the last thing she wanted was people finding her.

Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

Death brings the anonymity of a post office box, allowing me to slip through the coming centuries silent and unobserved.

A deed without a name.