Quotes of: National-identity Keyword

Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

David Novak

You have a certain identity that you present to the world on Facebook, and you have a certain identity that you present with the telephone, and they are different.

Brian Acton

... je sais parfaitement que la peur pourrait faire basculer n'importe quelle personne dans le crime.

In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

We do not behave out of our identity, we behave out of our understanding of our identity in Christ.

On Purpose for a Purpose

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

Bill Nelson

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

Hugh Laurie

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

Brian Aldiss

I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.

Stephen Rea

The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as s...

Louis D. Brandeis

Identity confusion is defined by the SCID-D as a subjective feeling of uncertainty, puzzlement, or conflict about one's own identity. Patients who report histories of childhood trauma characteristically describe themes of ongoing inner struggle regar...

Interviewer's Guide to the Structured Clinical Interview for Dsm-IV (R) Dissociative Disorders (Scid-D)

In fact, poetry has always been like archives that peoples have continually used to serve their feelings, thoughts, national identities and cultures, and it has served as a factor uniting different historical periods. Those who had lost contact with ...

Speech and Power of Expression: On Language, Esthetics, and Belief

Nationalism as a thesis confuses (almost always deliberately) certain legitimate desires with illegitimate ones. People like to run their own affairs, and most people value the culture they were raised in, are proud of its achievements and wish it we...

Anthony C. Grayling

Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.

The Case for the Real Jesus: A Journalist Investigates Current Attacks on the Identity of Christ

Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.

The Death of the Author

Self-identity is about content not the container that carry the identity,contextual value and not a solo island. It is about conception and not just a birth process.

Discovering Yourself

Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.

Stephen Gardiner

When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British...

Michael King

One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if I'm honest with myself, it's practically the only activity that I truly love to do.

Gretchen Rubin

If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity. You really weaken that sense of identity if you celebrate two religions.

Elliott Abrams

I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to.

Chaz Bono