Identity Quotes

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same. Djuna Barnes

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don’t know your history, if you don’t know your family, who are you? Mary Pipher

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. Marshall McLuhan

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

So long as the source of our identity is external – vested in how others judge our performance at work, or how others judge our children’s performance, or how much money we make – we will find ourselves hopelessly flawed, forever short of the ideal. Melinda M. Marshall

Work is an essential part of being alive. Your work is your identity. Kay Stepkin

Integrity simple means not violating one’s own identity. Erich Fromm

Anybody who has an identity problem had better wise up and get with the program! Jack Handy

A man’s identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man’s worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human. Andrea Dworkin