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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 H. Erikson

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

James Baldwin

~ I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good. ~

Vaclav Havel

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

James Baldwin

~ 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

~ What then is personal identity? It is the persistence of certain defining characteristics in a very complex orderly society endowed with a preeminent linear society or "soul" ~

Professor Hartshorne

~ When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes. ~

Paige Rense

~ 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

~ Canadians were the first anti-Americans, and the best. Canadian anti-Americanism, just as the country's French-English duality, has for two centuries been the central buttress of our national identity. ~

Jack Granetstein

~ 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

~ If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft. ~

Bill Nelson

~ For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people. ~

Joseph A. Schumpeter

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

David Blunkett

~ Europe did not derive its identity from itself but from the formation of a set of global contrasts. ~

Gerard Delanty

~ We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale -- identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual. ~

Charles Horton

~ Democrats are losing loyal voters, but the Republicans aren't picking them up. Democrats are ideologically bankrupt. Republicans have a major brand-identity problem ~

Herman Cain

~ Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities. ~

Ron Lewis

~ This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal. ~

Robert Penn Warren

~ There is a powerful tension in our relationship to technology. We are excited by egalitarianism and anonymity, but we constantly fight for our identity ~

David Owens

~ Masculinity can only be experienced, achieved, recognized, and embodied in opposition to femininity. When men posit sex, violence, and death as elemental erotic truths, they mean thisthat sex, or fucking, is the act which enables them to experience their own reality, or identity, or masculinity most concretely; that violence, or sadism, is the means by which they actualize that reality, or identity, or masculinity; and that death, or negation, or nothingness, or contamination by the female is what they risk each time they penetrate into what they imagine to be the emptiness of the female hole. ~

Andrea Dworkin

~ Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society for human ends. We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identityadvance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary. ~

Jean Baker Miller

~ Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity. ~

Erich Fromm

~ By writing I create an identity for myself. Without it I wouldn't feel being anybody, thus a personality. - It's not as much a question of self-expression as a need of finding yourself. ~

Pentti Saarikoski

~ It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity. ~

Beatrice Webb

~ From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. ~

Carl Schurz

~ Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals. ~

Abdolkarim Soroush

~ In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity. ~

Camille Paglia

~ 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. ~

Joseph Campbell

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