Quotes About Identity

In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist.

There are corrupted Muslims who have become Christians, and corrupted Christians who have become Muslims. They called it freedom of religion.

my mother gave me islam.my father gave me the god of absence.and here i am.a religion made of myself.

Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.

What's true about you is what God says about you. Not what your mirror says. Not what your past says.

When your identity switch from the personal identity to the eternal self, no fear of death or karmic bondage arise in you.

By the time I turned fifteen, Communism had become my religion.

Do you have to pay to be Jewish? Do you need a licence?

5 mins after your birth, they decide your name, nationality, religion & sect & you spend rest of your life defending something you didn't choose.

most people don't understand what process can do or can't do, chattr it's one of many way to show whoever you're root. Boss still boss and God still God.

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.

I'm just trying to remember what self-respect feels like. It's a fading memory.

I believe that when we love someone, we respect them, and we listen to them; we feel that their voice matters. And- we let them dictate the terms of who they are and what their story is.

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.

Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.

I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect

No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.

If I am not I, who will be?

We're all different and I respect my difference. I just try to be myself at all times. As long as I do that my music is always going to be different.