Identities Quotes
142 Identities quotes by 126 unique authors
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People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are…
— Alain de Botton
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I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I see fashion as a proclamation or manifestation of identity, so, as long as identities are important, fashion will continue to be important. The link…
— Kate Bornstein
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WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad…
— Pema Chodron
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Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be “just humans†within the framework of white supremacy has…
— Bell Hooks
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As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all…
— John Green
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For an instant she felt them, their identities, almost their substance, pass over her head like a wave. At some time she would be —…
— Margaret Atwood
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You're just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we…
— Gayle Forman
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You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn to throw things…
— Neil Gaiman
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Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many…
— Amartya Sen
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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.
— Andrea Dworkin
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Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself.…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or…
— Unknown Author
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Having faith in the plan of salvation includes steadfastly refusing to be diverted from our true identities and responsibilities. In the brief season of our…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.
— Frank P. Ramsey
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In the U.S., we are free to speak our minds and to spend money without being forced to reveal our identities - except when using…
— Jamais Cascio
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Strong religious identities survive and thrive. But more than ever before, even in their most conservative iterations, they are chosen.
— Krista Tippett
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I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.
— Hugh Laurie
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The Eurasian union is a project meant to preserve the identities of nations and the historic Eurasian community in the new century, in a new…
— Vladimir Putin
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