Quotes about Identity

Often the greatest poverty comes when we fail to realize what we have, just as the greatest deception comes when we do not know who we are.

If you believe you are a problem, sooner or later you will begin to act like one. Likewise, if you believe you are not intrinsically a problem but a solution, you will begin to act like one.

How many parents have lost the hearts of their children because they forgot why they had them? It was never to control them but to provide an environment in which they would flourish. How many couples have lost their marriages because they forgot why they were together? They fight against each other rather than for their love. Do we grasp and wrestle with others for their roles because we lose sight of our own?

The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the other become angry.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.