Anonymity Quotes

• Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

  Danny Wallace

  Mistake, People, Privilege

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.

  John Paul Stevens

  Majority, Shields, Tyranny

  "Court Defends Anonymity of Pamphleteers" by Joan Biskupic, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 1995.

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• Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Truth, Honesty

  "The Critic as Artist". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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• The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Truth Is, Completeness

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.84, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

  Jason Priestley

  Appreciate, Appreciate You

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• Anonymity is the fame of the future.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Social Media, Fame

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• Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.

  Albert Einstein

  Stupidity, No Excuses, Excuse

  "Albert Einstein, The Human Side: New Glimpses From His Archives". Book by Albert Einstein, p. 54, 1979.

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• The art of giving is perfected through anonymity.

  Douglas Horton

  Art, Giving, Cynicism

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

  Quentin L. Cook

  Choices, Protection, Mask

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• I want to be normal. I really want anonymity.

  Emma Watson

  Want, Normal

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• But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Doe, Praise, Known

  "Louisa May Alcott: Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Stories & Other Writings".

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

  Evgeny Morozov

  Media, Weakness, Social

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• I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.

  Mia Wasikowska

  People, Know Me, Knows

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• I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.

  Elena Ferrante

  Absence

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• For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Giving Up, Loss, Sides

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeless land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.

  Alistair Cooke

  Air, Land, Car

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• The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.

  Peter Singer

  Expression, People, Deception

  "The unknown promise of internet freedom" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

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• Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

  Kathy Reichs

  Dignity, Insult, Humans

  Kathy Reichs (2006). “Break No Bones: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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

  Mal Fletcher

  World, Achieve, Mark

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• Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.

  Elena Ferrante

  Writing, Let Me

  Interview with Deborah Orr, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2016.

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• What I hate is the loss of anonymity.

  Harrison Ford

  Hate, Loss, Fame

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• The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.

  Frank Ocean

  Directors, Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.

  Alice Sebold

  World, Imagine, Time Of Day

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.177, Pan Macmillan

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• The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.

  Marla Maples

  Keeping Secrets, Losing, Problem

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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