Identity Quotes

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

~ Jean-Francois Cope

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

~ Julie Delpy

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

~ Tom Hooper

Berlin is all about volatility. Its identity is based not on stability but on change.

~ Rory Maclean

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.

~ Marilyn Manson

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.

~ David Soul

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

~ Asap Ferg

We should be very concerned: if identity theft is so simple to do, what's to stop me from entering this country and assuming the identity of someone else for the sole purpose of living here illegally for terrorist reasons? That alone would be a concern.

~ Frank Abagnale

Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

~ Queen Latifah

Environmental pollution, terrorism, and many other global threats do not stop at borders. We all bear global responsibility and thus need a global identity to enable us to cope with them. We must learn to integrate different levels of identity in ourselves. What matters is not either/or, but both/and.

~ Klaus Schwab

In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

~ Henri Nouwen

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.

~ Jon Meacham

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

~ Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.

~ Noah Feldman