Identity Quotes

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do.

One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day.

MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.

Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity.

Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

I think we carry around the idea of being a Kid in the Hall as part of our identity. It's a big part of how we see ourselves now.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.