Anonymity Quotes

I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly.

I realize I will never regain my anonymity but I can certainly give it a try. And it's a lot of fun to give it a try.

We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.

In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.

I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.

There's always going to be a tradeoff between trolling and anonymity, and I guess that's the way life will be. And you can manage it, but you can't cure it.

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

One of the things I think is really problematic about something like [government] spyware is that it isn't transparent - because of that anonymity and that secrecy, there aren't laws to regulate it.

Anonymity is not necessarily something to shun; we don't have to achieve celebrity to make a mark on the world.

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity.

TV has a lot of problems, but I think the Internet and social media have a lot more. Under the cover of anonymity people say the most vicious things.

It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity.

It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.' No one notices me now.

If I could get any semblance of - it's not really anonymity, but a little bit more - control over my public image, I guess that would be nice.

I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.

One thing about New York is you can understand how you're perceived really easily if you just get on the train, by the way people look at you. But there's still an anonymity in it.

One of your greatest protections against making bad choices is to not put on any mask of anonymity.

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

I don't like the anonymity of the banking process - people now don't have a bank manager they ever meet.

For me, it's important to keep a level of anonymity.

In New York there's a lot of interstitial spaces; spaces in between spaces, where you're changing, and New York gives you the anonymity to be who you want to be.

Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.

One of the biggest sacrifices in running for President, if there is one, is the loss of anonymity.

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

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.

What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind.

I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.

There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.

You can always find a stray negative comment on the Internet. It's like everybody loves to put negative comments on the Internet under the cloak of anonymity.

Celebrity is a currency with an exchange rate almost as strong as anonymity.

Fame and success put tremendous demands on people. It robs them of their necessary privacy and anonymity. That's hard for even healthy people to deal with.

It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years.

Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty...

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.

Blessed is the nightbird that sings for joy and not to be heard.

Think how wonderful it might be to no longer matter, Mrs. Peregrine. Think how wonderful it might be to no longer worry, struggle… or fail.

Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...

I simply decided once and for all to liberate myself from the anxiety of notoriety and the urge to be a part of that circle of successful people, those who believe they have won who-knows-what

Anonymity beats fame. One cannot undo fame.

Who are you?""No one of consequence.""I must know.""Get used to disappointment.

You can tell a lot about a man's character by how he behaves when given anonymity..

Men like that — when they know they won’t be found out — they will do anything.

The wise oyster stays in its shell.

Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction.