Identity Quotes - page 4

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs. (Melissa Bean)
All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same rules and the same laws as us, those people with whom we might one day have to fight side by side to protect our inheritance, those people with whom we will suffer when attacked, those people whose destinies are in some way tied up with our own. View quote
Roger Scruton
The very act of thinking about power in our lives and experiences creates a process of revelation and self-analysis that may even make us look at ourselves in a new light... thinking about power and its complex manifestations may not simply lead to a better understanding of the abstract complexities of society, but may have an effect on one‟s own image and identity. Perhaps a warning label should be placed on the cover... View quote
Kenneth Boulding
The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion, and a desperate search for identity. Out of adolescence, however, comes maturity in which physical growth with all its attendant difficulties comes to an end, but in which growth continues in knowledge, in spirit, in community, and in love; it is to this that we look forward as a human race. This goal, once seen with our eyes, will draw our faltering feet toward it. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it...The great stroke of luck for the military class's terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don't recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness. View quote
Paul Virilio
I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else. View quote
John Howard
She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation. ... Both are illusions. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
It was measured that the splinters of the Armenian nation that had managed to miraculously escape the Genocide would not be able to recover from the blow, would disappear in the whirlpools on five continents, lose their national identity, and aptitude to be a political factor. But we, as a nation and as a state, were able to reappear at the international arena to affirm that we continue our eternal journey and that we are determined not to allow for such a crime to ever happen again. View quote
Serzh Sargsyan
I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me. (Jay London)
We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging. View quote
Mark Kingwell
Drag is really about mocking identity. Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are – you are more than what it says on your passport. View quote
RuPaul
It is the prayer of my innermost being To realize my supreme identity In the liberated play of consciousness, The Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation. View quote
Alex Grey
The eye... the point where a person's identity is concentrated. View quote
Milan Kundera
We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory. View quote
A. B. Yehoshua
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people. View quote
A. B. Yehoshua
Israel is too attached to America, too influenced by America. It should be connected to Europe. America is based on mythology - the free man, the individual, the open frontier. Europe is more conscious of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your identity through history. View quote
A. B. Yehoshua
When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before. View quote
Peter Straub
Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help. (Ted Dekker)
Culture has become one of the last elements of our identity. We have to act in favor of cultural diversity abroad as well as at home, we need strong cultural diplomacy but we have to create it. View quote
Frederic Martel
People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent. View quote
Hugo Hamilton
Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness. View quote
Brenda Shoshanna
To be a person, a being must be self-conscious, aware of its identity and its continued existence over time. View quote
Derek Parfit