Quotes about Identity
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.
— Malcolm X
If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.
— Joseph Campbell
He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
— Oscar Wilde
Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.
— DH Lawrence
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.
— Phillips Brooks
If someone isn't what others want them to be, the other become angry.
— Paulo Coelho
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
— CS Lewis
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.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
— Marianne Williamson
You are made in the image of what you desire.
— Thomas Merton
When we become overly concerned about our appearance, our spiritual reputation, our coolness, and our acceptance, we are living as citizens of this world rather than as ambassadors.
— Francis Chan