Identity Quote by Samuel R. Delany

“There are few things more powerful than a name. A single phrase that somehow becomes a symbol for an entire existence.”

— Lance Conrad

“A name is a powerful thing. It sets one apart and gives significance.”

— Jessica Khoury

“Everyone should know what it is like to be called by name. By the name of the unique person one is at heart.”

— Mary Balogh

“It was not an easy thing, for to name something established dominion over it. As with an infant, it shaped and moulded with the…

— Eliza Granville

“Everything looks so much alike that you wonder how people got the idea of inventing names, to make distinctions.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“All things are defined by names. Change the name, and you change the thing.”

— Terry Pratchett

“The concept of a person is that of a character abstracted from a history.”

— Alasdair MacIntyre

“A name does not make a person...A person makes a name”

— Brenda Youngerman

“The term 'person' has been coined to signify that a man cannot be wholly contained within the concept 'individual member of the species', but…

— John Paul II

“After all, what is an individual?”

— Aldous Huxley

“One person, I’d come to understand, was actually many people—people of different ages, people who lived in different surroundings; these people all had the…

— Frederic S. Durbin

“One by one, with my own hands, I had to make this thing I called 'I'-- or, rather, make the things that constituted me.”

— Haruki Murakami