Identity Quotes - Page 36

• The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, Successful, Reality

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Identity and the Life Cycle”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.

  Erik Erikson

  War, Mean, Men

  "The Problem of Ego Identity", Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1956.

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• How can we encourage other human beings to extend their moral sympathies beyond a narrow locus? How can we learn to become mere human beings, shorn of any more compelling national, ethnic, or religious identity? We can be reasonable. It is in the very nature of reason to fuse cognitive and moral horizons. Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

  Sam Harris

  Love, Religious, Horizon

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.190, W. W. Norton & Company

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  Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

  Bill Johnson

  Intimacy, Royalty, Assignments

  Bill Johnson (2010). “Dreaming with God: Co-Laboring with God for Cultural Transformation”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.

  Tom Allen

  Party, Together, Sides

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• The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

  Erik Erikson

  Self, Ability, Continuity

  Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Childhood and Society”, p.42, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity--which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices--what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds. We break the illusion that we think our own thoughts, which is not always the case. Some ideas just arrive in our heads.

  James Redfield

  Thinking, Practice, Ideas

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• There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Morning, Men, Mind

  "No Country for Old Men Novel by Cormac McCarthy". Book by Cormac McCarthy, July 19, 2005.

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• The country has already become multicultural. Given immigration trends, it will only grow more diverse, and these new Americans want to share in their country's identity.

  Tom Gjelten

  Country, Immigration, Trends

  "Devout Muslim Preaches His Love For America". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. October 6, 2015.

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• I think it's the responsibility of every human being, not just those who wear the identity of poet, activist, voter, religious person... it's the responsibility of every person. Our responsibility is to use our intelligence as clearly and coherently as we possibly can.

  John Trudell

  Religious, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity, no politics of victimization. Reparation wasn't in the language. Nobody thought about giving the great grandchildren of black slaves so much as $1.98. And all of a sudden the bombs hit, interventionism versus isolationism became a dead issue, and it was us-versus-them in a heartbeat.

  James Ellroy

  Grandchildren, Issues, Giving

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Directors should not be forced to advocate anything in their works because of their demographic identity.

  Esra Saydam

  Directors, Demographics, Should

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think today that's a very big problem because of the world we live in and the social media and everything... everybody is obsessed with their own identity, but seen through other people.

  Salma Hayek

  Thinking, Media, People

  "Puss in Boots - Salma Hayek interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think I appeal to people who are living in the margins because of their identity and who need to feel freedom somewhere.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, People, Needs

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• What we live with is ourselves. And when you have your own identity you are much easier to live with.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Easier

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• The design of a restaurant should embrace the identity of the chef, the nature of the cuisine, and the context of the restaurant itself.

  David Rockwell

  Design, Cuisine, Chef

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this self-consciousness necessarily remains personality and the consciousness of personal identity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Spiritual, Self, Personality

  Immanuel Kant (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)”, p.165, Delphi Classics

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• I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish impulses of man constitute a much less historic danger than his integrative tendencies. To put it in the simplest way: the individual who indulges in an excess of aggressive self-assertiveness incurs the penalties of society-he outlaws himself, he contracts out of the hierarchy. The true believer, on the other hand, becomes more closely knit into it; he enters the womb of his church, or party, or whatever the social holon to which he surrenders his identity.

  Arthur Koestler

  Selfish, Party, Men

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• If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

  Jean-Francois Cope

  Your Smile, Denial, Burqa

  "Can Jean-François Copé save France from anti-Muslim extremism?" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2011.

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• Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, “Identity Thief,” and Rex Reed, who’s a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don’t know what the right “ism” for it is, but I think that there’s a level of that that’s happening that’s certainly not okay.

  Josh Gad

  Bullying, Thinking, Thieves

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 13, 2013.

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• Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.

  Lianne La Havas

  Strong, Inspire, Knows

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• American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

  Tom Hooper

  Patriotic, Cinema, Bases

  "Tom Hooper: the man who doesn't need Oscar". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2011.

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• I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.

  LL Cool J

  People, Serious, Figures

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?

  Etgar Keret

  Mean, Issues, Doe

  "Etgar Keret: 'I feel more Jewish than Israeli'". Interview With William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.

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• On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.

  Walter Kohn

  Strong, Years, Jewish Identity

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