Identity Quote by John Fea Download Open image ““In the United States, self reigns supreme.”” — John Fea ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Identity
“The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile.” — Plato Copy Share Image
“First and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered By self is, of all things. the most shameful and objectionable.” — Plato Copy Share Image
“The greatest victory in leadership is not over others it’s over your own ego.” — Shamail Aijaz Copy Share Image
“He who becomes his most truthful self, becomes the leader for everyone else.” — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
“For you to be great, you must live a life of self-consciousness all the time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“I am the world’s greatest American. I narrowly beat out all of China for the title.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“our natural inclination—our “psychological condition at rest”—is to consume the past for our own purposes or try to remake the past in our own… — John Fea Copy Share Image
“By trying to understand the past on its own terms, the historian treats it with integrity rather than manipulating it or superimposing his or… — John Fea Copy Share Image
“the late historian and cultural critic Christopher Lasch in his book The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy. His description of… — John Fea Copy Share Image
“The French visitor to America Alexis de Tocqueville, writing in the 1830s, described the connection between American individualism and historical amnesia: Not only does… — John Fea Copy Share Image
“As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of this tragic event in the American past, democracy is no longer being threatened by secession, slavery, or… — John Fea Copy Share Image
“Parker Palmer puts it, “Democracy gives us the right to disagree and is designed to use the energy of creative conflict to drive positive… — John Fea Copy Share Image
“Wineburg: For the narcissist sees the world—both the past and the present—in his own image. Mature historical understanding teaches us to do the opposite:… — John Fea Copy Share Image
“The sixteenth-century writer Montaigne once said, “Every man calls evil what he does not understand.” — John Fea Copy Share Image
“The Tea Party movement and other libertarians have convinced millions of Americans that they have to answer to no authority but themselves. Many in… — John Fea Copy Share Image
“History reminds us of the inherent weakness in the human condition and the very real possibility that our fellow human beings are capable of… — John Fea Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East. — Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Copy Share Image
I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“In the worldly life, due to maadakta (intoxication of the ego of ‘I am Chandubhai’), one has completely lost awareness of everything about one’s… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply… — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image