“The individual within the framework and in the service of his people. The people within the framework and in the service of… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
Being gay, you're kind of forced to ask, I suppose, very existential questions from a very, very early age. Your identity becomes… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
This is why Indians are thought to be stupid. They can't think, they don't know anything, they say. But we have hidden… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
“Our spirits are full of possibilities, yet we tie ourselves down to socially-prescribed names and categories so we're acceptable to more people.… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is… — Don Altman Copy Share Image
“A person tastes the sweet pride of doer-ship by saying ‘I did this so well’. The taste of this subtle pride seems… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing… — Jack Heffron Copy Share Image
“As a teenager, I loved how I looked in the outfit of using drugs and exercising poor judgement. I had tried it… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Weirdly, when I was in drama school my accent probably got stronger because of that sense of identity when you leave home… — Iwan Rheon Copy Share Image
“[Monty] talks about Fritz Perls and the Gestalt theory. The here and now is the only time that exists. And being yourself.… — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Remember, Trying To Be Anyone Else Is A Waste Of The Person You Are. Embrace That Individual Inside You That Has Ideas,… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“The notion of an impersonal, even hostile society is common--a society in which all actions and motives seem to have equal value… — Robert Nisbet Copy Share Image
“Although to be driven back upon oneself is an uneasy affair at best, rather like trying to cross a border with borrowed… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
When I get on the internet and hide behind a false identity, and then allow that hiding to free me from the… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
I'm of that generation of Jews still deeply influenced by the Holocaust. Certainly the notion that the state power to kill can… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
I've been to many Games and Championships and the mascot plays a special part. It brings a certain energy to the event,… — Denise Lewis Copy Share Image
We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
“What is the self? A man goes to the window to see the people passing by; if I pass by, can I… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When we were children, there was a silent part of us watching the child. When we were adolescents, there was that same… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
What "Make America Great" means is it doesn't mean race, and it doesn't mean gender, and it doesn't mean sexual orientation, and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
As I traveled around the country on a book tour for 'In Harm's Way,' I began learning how certain Indianapolis survivors had… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
I love really exploring... you know, a cop drama for example is a great way to explore class in this country and… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
“The self does not stand alone; as we’ve seen, the self is not a thing, let alone a thing in itself. Rather,… — Robert W. Fuller Copy Share Image
Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“We seemed to share certain ideas about what happens in childhood, when you have to place yourself under the sign of your… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“Freedom to order our own conduct in the sphere where material circumstances force a choice upon us, and responsibility for the arrangement… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“The Great Ones, the sages of every age, tell me what to look for. They say that the answer lies not elsewhere… — J. C. Amberchele Copy Share Image
“Everyone in yuppie-land — airports, for example — looks like a nursing baby these days, inseparable from their plastic bottles of water.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Not the free individual but the lost individual; not Independence but isolation; not self-discovery but self-obsession; not the conquer but to be… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
It's important for me to not historicize. I work to diffuse the issue of identity and to intensify identification. You have to… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
“The public is a host, more numerous than all the peoples together, but it is a body which can never be reviewed,… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity,… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“If I give you and apple and ask you, “What is that?” You reply, “An apple.” “How do you know it’s an… — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image