There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I think when you grow up living next to your grandparents and cousins and you're 300 meters from the family offices and… — Margherita Missoni Copy Share Image
Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Your motivations--get that promotion, throw the best parties, run for public office--aren't impersonal abstractions but powerfully reflect who you are and what… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
“The most important distinction anyone can ever make in their life is between who they are as an individual and their connection… — Anné Linden Copy Share Image
The emergence of a strong Muslim identity in Britain is, in part, a result of multicultural policies implemented since the 1980s, which… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
The nation as the horizon of an identity that you want to come into being as a fundamental absence of something that… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
Myriads of individuals, each one unique, live out their lives in rapt intercourse with one another, contribute their heart's pulses to the… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“It's not enough for us to mourn and resist the suffering and oppression of 2SLGBTQIA+ folks. We must also dare to imagine… — Jamie Arpin-Ricci Copy Share Image
Self-expression is something that you've crafted, something that you've found. You've practiced on that piano for hours, you didn't hang out with… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
To challenge norms, presuppositions, practices in communities across this country - where the unconscious valorization and celebration of whiteness and conscious resistance… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“To perceive others as fully human means to be saddened by the death of every single person, regardless of the population, group,… — David Livingstone Smith Copy Share Image
“Intrinsic valuation is the value to be found in any uniquely individual object not subject to limitations of those values shared in… — John William Davis Copy Share Image
A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford. — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
The reason I could fit in with so many different kinds of people was that I had no self. And then the… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves? — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Life gives us equal chance to prove our self,just we recognise that chance.. — Aj 1117 Copy Share Image
After two decades of reconstruction work, I want to work on projects that lay at the intersection of cultural diplomacy and national… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
“The source of every disobedience, indifference, and passion is self-satisfaction. The source of every obedience, vigilance, and virtue is dissatisfaction with one’s… — Ibn Ata Illah Copy Share Image
“You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set… — Paul Graham 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
