“Every person has many identities, and experiences those identities in unique ways, depending on location, time, and the rest of who they… — Sam Killermann Copy Share Image
If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Identitarianism assumes that people are condemned to identify with the positive (ethnic/ gender/ nationalistic) predicates they possess, as if their subjectivity were… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
I'm what they call a 'non-black person of color': NBPOC. It's easy and seductive and common to mobilize around these identity issues,… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
“I begin to learn there are certain things I shouldn't tell her. Like when we meet boys at Dorrian's and I give… — Kerry Cohen Copy Share Image
“It is this outer reach of existential abnegation – the moment where subjective identity deserts itself and becomes enslaved without consciousness of… — Emily Apter Copy Share Image
“today’s self is restlessly bent on reinvention mainly in order to get rid of a nagging sense of guilt that creates tremendous… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“For a young woman today, developing femininity successfully requires meeting three basic demands. The first of these is that she must defer… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
I pray for that moment in which I think we can claim to the world that we are now in a different,… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I actually wished that everyone was the same. And I despised myself for my "differentness"… — Laura Hanna Copy Share Image
If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which,… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
“For a long while I have believed – this is perhaps my version of Sir Darius Xerxes Cama’s belief in a fourth… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Pam, my new therapist, who’s like some blissed-out, grown-up, yoga-hippie version of Rain, says that the physical body, the idea of the… — Kate Ellison Copy Share Image
If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Your identity, self-esteem, and awareness of your ego lay the groundwork for your life. How you conduct yourself with others, and whether… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“It’s true that many overly negative people actually fear letting go of their negativity, and it’s because it has become a part… — Alaric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
The beauty of the literary art, the grappling with the black church, the wrestling with one's identity in the bosom of a… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“For those who suffer disposal, the cost is their very lives. For those of us who survive, there is a creeping indifference… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“That which attracts the world must please and pander to the self-importance of man. The world itself is a vain show, and… — William Kelly Copy Share Image
The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“In what way can it act as master? Through scores of incarnations, the ‘self ’ we end up with is derived from… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The backstory to anyone of mixed race is a lifetime spent being incorrectly perceived and choosing either to allow that misperception to… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Is it in the interests of Britain to leave or remain in the EU? As we saw in the referendum, there are… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“If one does not make an ego out of gender, one would still know whether one is a man or a woman,… — Rita M. Gross Copy Share Image
We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Our self (Soul) is maya (an illusion) where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
All these years you've been searching and looking and trying to change things, trying to add thing onto yourself, trying to acquire… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“We all have our own special talents and gifts that make us unique, but because they’re part of us, we can have… — Tina Hallis Copy Share Image
[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The establishment has learned how to co-opt identity politics to put the brakes on economic progress and justice. So I would say… — Jimmy Dore Copy Share Image
“There is no such person as a self-made man or woman. There is nothing you have that has not been Given to… — Rotimi Ogunjobi Copy Share Image
Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We want to live a simple life, ... I want to emphasize I'm not an environmentalist who goes to church. I want… — Allen Johnson Copy Share Image
Identity is becoming more dependent on what people are willing subscribe to and less dependent on objective criteria such as skin colour… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
![“[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.” quote by Clay Shirky](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/467/clay-shirky-3364_easier_t-he-ways-in-which-the-information-we-gi_1173605.png)
