Group Identity Quotes:

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

- Clay Shirky

topic: Identity, Groups, Group Identity, Cooperating

Conformity is the only real fashion crime

- Simon Doonan

topic: Fashion, Real, Conformity, Succumbing, Group Identity

I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.

- Veronica Roth

topic: Life, Loyalty, Giving, Group Identity

To me, a person's identity is composed of both an 'I' and a 'we.' The 'I' finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity - a tribe, a community, a 'we.' America is too big and bland a tribe for most of us.

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

topic: Meaningful, America, Community, Group Identity, Bland

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

- Kenneth Noland

topic: Artist, Identity, Groups, Clique, Group Identity

The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan.

- Erik Erikson

source: Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Identity and the Life Cycle”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Group Identity, Growing Children

One's worth and self-regard ought to come from individual competitive performance, not from group identity. Pride based on clan or tribal connections is atavistic. It appeals to people who fear they cannot succeed as individuals, and by diverting their energies it all but ensures they will not succeed as individuals.

- William A. Henry III

source: William A. Henry, III (2015). “In Defense of Elitism”, p.106, Anchor

topic: Pride, Self, People, Group Identity

Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness, making him indistinguishable from the multitudes that form what is commonly referred to as 'the masses,' but it simultaneously assigns him a group identity based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, income, etc., to highlight differences within the masses.

- Mark Levin

topic: Race, Ethnicity, Two, Group Identity, Race Ethnicity

By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so called 'diversity' actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist.

- Ron Paul

source: "Government and Racism" by Ron Paul, April 16, 2007.

topic: Racism, Diversity, Identity, Group Identity

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.

- J. C. Watts

topic: Strong, African American, Identity, Group Identity