Best 2380 quotes in «identity quotes» category

Hindu is a geographical identity, or at the most a cultural one - not a religion. There is no set of beliefs that everyone has to adhere to.

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

How can we encourage other human beings to extend their moral sympathies beyond a narrow locus? How can we learn to become mere human beings, shorn of any more compelling national, ethnic, or religious identity? We can be reasonable. It is in the very nature of reason to fuse cognitive and moral horizons. Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

Human beings are distinguished by a capacity for experience as well as by their behavior, and homosexuality is as much a matter ofemotion as of genital manipulation.... As we each examine our own sense of identity we realize how much more complex is the question of homosexuality than a mere Kinsey-like computation of orgasms.

I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.

I also eschew the identity of "puppeteer" it is a concept that blurs the boundaries of discrete objects and persons. I do think Anarchist Nihilist Puppet Show is my day job.

I always had a separate life than just my work. I built my own family. I have my own hobbies and interests. I have a ranch with livestock and horses. I didn't always get my self-esteem and identity from acting. I never worked unless I wanted to. I never did anything just to do it, just for the paycheck. I always did things that I liked.

I am interested in the paradox between identity and uniformity, in the power and vulnerability of each individual and each group. It is in this paradox that I try to visualize by concentrating on poses, attitudes, gestures, and gazes.

I am, it seems, interested in people with multiple identities. I think we all have multiple identities.

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.

I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.

I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity.

I can imagine for some bands the ability to make your sound and make your identity known could be challenging.

I believe that photographers should be passionate, determined, disciplined and ready to seek out their own styles and identities.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

Identity has several parts, and the self needs to expand. Black youth should be encouraged to have as many parts or as rich an identity as possible. It's a form of allowing them to be curious about the world.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

Identity is marketed in national capitalism as a property. It is something you can purchase, or purchase a relation to. Or it is something you already own that you can express: my masculinity, my queerness . But identity need not be simply a caption for an image of an unchangeable concrete self. It is also a theory of the future, of history.

Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.

I did a different production with a different director and Bill Pullman. Oleanna­ - the one you saw - we were doing right after Bourne Identity or right after it came out.

I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families--our ancestors--are our identities. Biology is destiny. I'm not who you think I am, I had said to T.J. the last time I'd seen him. Maybe I wasn't who I'd thought I was either.

Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

Identity is invariably false to facts.

Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.

Identity can be so gelatinous sometimes.

Identity theft, financial laundering, as well as ransom and ransomware - I mean, think of it - all involving extortion of a hacked institution are becoming increasingly common.

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It's invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.

Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive.

[Identity liberalism] says, on the one hand, you can never understand me because you are not exactly the kind of person I've defined myself to be. And on the other hand, you must recognize me and feel for me. Well, if you're so different that I'm not able to get into your head and I'm not able to experience or sympathize with what you experience, why should I care?

Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.

I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.

I didn't realize how much me hiding my sexuality also meant that I hid a lot of just my identity as a person.

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.

I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.

I dont know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, its very difficult to find.

I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.

I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.

I'd say that my identity is really a culinary identity, so the way I relate to my national heritage is through its cuisine.

I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.