43 quotes found
“Men like that when they know they wont be found out they will do anything.”
“Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...”
“We dont necessarily need to know each others name, age, profession, drug of choice, childhood trauma or recent tragedy to understand what pain feels like and offer comfort. We are strangers drawn t...”
“Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty...”
“Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction.”
“I am free, anonymous man. My flights and falls occurred while I was wearing a magical cap of of invisibility, my successes and sins sailed on in invisible corvettes, and films and books flew off in...”
“But people in masks were always assholes. It was a scientific law. Give someone anonymity and all social niceties break down. The Internet had proven that.”
“I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.”
“As an editor, you develop a B.S. meteran internal warning system that signals caution about journalism that doesn't feel trustworthy. Sometimes it's a quote or incident that's too perfect a feeling...”
“What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?”
“A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak th...”
“I’m doing the absolute opposite of giving myself away. As far as I’m concerned, I’ll be completely visible. If the painting sells, I’ll be in Paris, hanging on a wall. If anything, I’m being selfis...”
“I was trying to make the web more civil. I was trying to make it more elegant. I got rid of anonymity. I combined a thousand disparate elements into one unified system. But I didn’t picture a world...”
“There's stranger sex than sex with strangers.”
“These hotels are not consoling places. Far from it. Any number of people had hung up their hats on those pegs. Even the flies, if you thought of it, had settled on other people’s noses. As for the ...”
“We don’t necessarily need to know each other’s name, age, profession, drug of choice, childhood trauma or recent tragedy to understand what pain feels like and offer comfort. We are strangers drawn...”
“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”
“With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, the...”
“Men like that — when they know they won’t be found out — they will do anything.”
