Quotes and Sayings About Identity
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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.
-- 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.
-- A. B. Yehoshua -
As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
-- Abdolkarim Soroush -
If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
-- Abdolkarim Soroush -
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
-- Abdolkarim Soroush -
Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
-- Adam Lambert -
A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.
-- Aga Khan IV -
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.
-- Aimee Friedman -
We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum - Out of One, Many.
-- Al Gore -
People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are all, by necessity, individuals with distinct identities and comparable claims on existence. Such words are nevertheless an apt vehicle for conveying the disparate treatment accorded to different groups. Those without status are all but invisible: they are treated brusquely by others, their complexities trampled upon and their singularities ignored.
-- Alain de Botton -
The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.
-- Alain de Botton -
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
-- Alan Dundes -
I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.
-- Alan Hovhaness -
Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.
-- Alan Rudolph -
A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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.
-- Alex Grey -
It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
-- Alex Kapranos -
The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'
-- Alfred Korzybski -
There is nothing more opposed to equality than identity.
-- Alice von Hildebrand -
Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.
-- Alistair Cooke -
Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind of tell based on what music a person listens to what kind of person they'll be pretty much for the rest of their life.
-- Aloe Blacc -
There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.
-- Amartya Sen -
the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute
-- Amartya Sen -
Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.
-- Amartya Sen -
OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have several identities, I only have one, made of all the elements that have shaped its unique proportions.
-- Amin Maalouf -
The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business."
-- Amy Poehler
