Quotes of: Personal-identity Keyword

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

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

A brick could be used as an identifier, for all those people with no real identities. I’m talking about clones, because just like bricks, each clone is exactly like the next.  

Brick

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

Ray Romano

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his ...

B. R. Ambedkar

I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

Erica Jong

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

Michael Ende

Your values define who you truly are. Your true identity is the sum total of your values.

The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership

Socialism provides safety in numbers. And that’s OK, if you don’t mind trading your name—your identity and individualism—for a number.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Identity is theft, don’t trust anyone whose state vector hasn’t forked for more than a gigasecond, change is the only constant, et bloody cetera.

Accelerando

Or is identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?

Ancillary Justice

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

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Come to Africa and help! Wherever you may be in the world, there is something you can give back to the continent that gave you a name and an identity, at least.

I Speak of Ghana

Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.

The Invention of the Jewish People

Soon the grizzly was joined by a brown bear, a sun bear, and a beaver suffering from an identity crisis of magnificent proportion

Sunlight and Shadow: A Retelling of The Magic Flute

Who you are; that is, who you choose to be — your identity, works in your life like an invisible hand.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

My Name is Red

I cannot be broken. I cannot be killed. I cannot fail. This is my identity. This is my core. I am infinite. I am permanent. I am unbreakable.

The Love Mindset

You empower ignorance if you as teacher hide yourself among the students because you know less and give less... Don’t hide your identity, make it a reality!

Leaders' Watchwords

If my name were Oscar, I’d want to be an actor and win my namesake award and take back my identity.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

Gay male and lesbian culture is obsessed with purity of identity as the only basis for figuring out who you can trust or dance with. -Pat Califia

PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality