Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Wilson

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

Joseph O'Neill

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

John Ciardi

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

Charlie Green

I'm not really worried about identity theft from public records.

Karl Marx

In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims.

Judith Guest

Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose what you never had.

Judith Butler

You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.

Judith Butler

Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.

Mitchell Hurwitz

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

Noam Chomsky

American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics.

Oprah Winfrey

If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself-or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

Marc Webb

When you dont inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

Melissa Bean

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

Nikki Giovanni

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Marshall McLuhan

The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive.

Marshall McLuhan

You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.

Marshall McLuhan

All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

Marshall McLuhan

Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.

Oswald Chambers

The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.

Marilyn Manson

I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.

Christopher Eccleston

We all need a firm sense of identity.

Christian Louboutin

Fragrance is so intimate for a lot of women - it's your essence, your identity.

Harry Hay

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.

George McGovern

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

Eckhart Tolle

My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness.

Terry Brooks

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.

Richard Jenkins

Without social identity, there is, in fact, no society.

Samuel P. Huntington

In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.

Samuel P. Huntington

We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.

Warren Farrell

Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search--for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.