Identity Quotes

For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.'

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.

it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.

If you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than murder.

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

Don't put the whole of your identity into the smallness of a situation.

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

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

So long as the UK continues to maintain its own identity, it is my belief that the US and the UK should maintain close relations.

Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.

Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.

You must know that you are worth much to me whether you accomplish anything or not. Even if you are rejected in the world's eyes, you are valuable to me.

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.

There is nothing more opposed to equality than identity.

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

And even when you can’t get seem to get your act together, your identity is secure and completely intact. Because in Christ, who you are matters infinitely more than anything you do or cannot do.

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'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

It's quite extraordinary that a recourse (branding/identity) which is generally regarded as so significant, and is now so ubiquitous, is so little understood.

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

Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

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'.

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.

Give people a common enemy, and you will give them a common identity. Deprive them of an enemy and you will deprive them of the crutch by which they know who they are.

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability.

My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.

Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.

If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.

Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity.

Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.