Identity Quotes

A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.

Like other forms of stealing, identity theft leaves the victim poor and feeling terribly violated.

I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain depth.

As we develop new beliefs about who we are, our behavior will change to support the new identity.

The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality.

The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

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.

Our identity in the world must change from Scam India to Skill India.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

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.

Who you are depends on who you meet.

Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.

Christians have a new identity. We are no longer 'in Adam' but 'in Christ'; no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit.

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.

What we know matters but who we are matters more.

Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity

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

I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.

Brand handling synergy means developing and communicating your company's values and identity consistently.

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.

The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'

We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.

We have put over £2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards

I love ebola jokes. When done in the right way, maybe it gets people to learn about ebola, to learn about the stigmas behind the identities held by Africans and so on.

I've learned over the years that identity has a whole lot less to do with location or other people's expectations than with your own sense of self and self-confidence.

It's not important to know who you are. It's important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules!

human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.

When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.

My past identity separates from me and remains in the past; he becomes someone else. Is memory really as insubstantial as the fragments of information that we store in our heads?

I think I've found out who I am and what we've been looking for. We don't have to search for my identity anymore. This is it-we're doing it!

Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.

For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.

Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.

Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.

To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity.

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Our primary identity has become that of being consumers – not mothers, teachers, or farmers, but of consumers. We shop and shop and shop.

Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.