Identity Quotes

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

~ Gene Luen Yang

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

~ Karen Armstrong

The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will.

~ Frank Abagnale

To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

~ Eli Pariser

There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.

~ Jean Charest

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

~ David Miliband

It's amazing how much information we share in social media, then we wonder why people steal our identity.

~ Frank Abagnale

The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity.

~ Mary Gaitskill

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

~ Demi Moore

When your identity is found in Christ, your identity never changes. You are always a child of God.

~ Tim Tebow

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

~ James Baldwin

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Unfortunately, it seems to me that when it comes to issues affecting the trans community, most people who are cisgender - a word describing those people whose gender identity is in alignment with the sex they were assigned at birth - focus too much on the administrative, legal, and medical aspects of trans identity.

~ Chelsea Manning

If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity, you're an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don't let anybody tell you different,' then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window.

~ Kirk Cameron

As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.

~ Ruben Hinojosa

When President Barack Obama is trying to persuade Americans not to do something, he has a go-to line: 'That's not who we are.' Whether the issue involves discrimination, immigration, torture, criminal violence or health care, he invokes the nation's very identity.

~ Cass Sunstein

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

~ Morrissey

When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.

~ Samantha Morton

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.

~ Henry Louis Gates

Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.

~ Pat Buchanan

My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.

~ Randa Abdel-Fattah

Branding is not merely about differentiating products; it is about striking emotional chords with consumers. It is about cultivating identity, attachment, and trust to inspire customer loyalty. Chinese brands score low on attributes such as 'sophisticated,' 'desirable,' 'innovative,' 'friendly,' and 'trustworthy.'

~ Nirmalya Kumar

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

~ Judith Butler

For the outside world, it may seem easy to enter into the industry if you belong to a film family, but, trust me, it's even harder, as you have to not only prove your talent but also carve your own niche and identity.

~ Armaan Malik

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.

~ Tila Tequila

All identity labels are umbrella terms to some degree, but this term 'bisexual' is not only serviceable, but it is sufficient. And yes, it brings together a bunch of people who are maybe shades different from one another. And maybe that's the beauty of labels: that they force you to be with other people and see the difference.

~ Charles M. Blow

I feel it is important not to get overly obsessed and overly carried away with just the physical aspect. There is more to beauty than just the physical appearance. You are also a complete person, and a woman should have an identity beyond just the way she looks.

~ Katrina Kaif

Viral videos aren't just about being funny. They're about identity creation.

~ Ricky Van Veen

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.

~ Jessica Hagedorn

Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward.

~ Greg Gutfeld

2017 may have been that year when identity politics hit a brick wall - and slumped limply on the pavement.

~ Greg Gutfeld

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

~ Sallust

It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.

~ Viktor Orban

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

~ Camille Paglia

My mom would have different fragrances for different times of the year. They were a part of her identity. I don't remember the specific ones she used, but I remember the bottles.

~ Blake Lively

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

~ James Norman Hall

To avoid the trap of Europe fragmenting on the economy, security, and identity, we have to return to the original promises of the European project: peace, prosperity and freedom. We should have a real, adult, democratic debate about the Europe we want.

~ Emmanuel Macron

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

~ Wayne Dyer

As soon as you 'Botox' your smile lines away, you lose part of your identity.

~ Nigel Barker