Quotes About Identity

When I was twenty-one, I finally realized that I was gay, after several years of living in denial. That's hardly exceptional. Many gay men spend their entire teenage years unsure about their sexuality.

Alternatively, people might completely give up on having a global story of any kind and instead seek shelter in local nationalist and religious tales.

Turing knew from personal experience that it didn't matter who you really were – it mattered only what others thought about you. According to Turing, in the future computers would be just like gay men in the 1950s. It won't matter whether computers will actually be conscious or not. It will matter only what people think about it. The

It would be wrong to tar all anti-immigrationists as "fascists," just as it would be wrong to depict all pro-immigrationists as committed to "cultural suicide.

There is no authentic self waiting to be liberated from the manipulative shell.

This is why we can still find ourselves between the pages of the Bible, in the writings of Confucius or within the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides. These classics were created by humans just like us, hence we feel that they talk about us. In modern theatre productions, Oedipus, Hamlet and Othello may wear jeans and T-shirts and have Facebook accounts, but their emotional conflicts are the same as in the original play.

Success is not guaranteed. Males in particular live in constant dread of losing their claim to manhood. Throughout history, males have been willing to risk and even sacrifice their lives, just so that people will say 'He's a real man!

There is little sense, then, in arguing that the natural function of women is to give birth, or that homosexuality is unnatural. Most of the laws, norms, rights and obligations that define manhood and womanhood reflect human imagination more than biological reality.

Identity is defined by conflicts and dilemmas more than by agreement

for decades, membership in all kinds of groups has declined as much as one-quarter. That's a lot of people who now need to find a sense of purpose and support somewhere else.

Particularly in a xenophobic dog-eats-dog world, if even a single country chooses to pursue a high-risk, high-gain technological path, other countries will be forced to do the same, because nobody can afford to remain behind. In order to avoid such a race to the bottom, humankind will probably need some kind of global identity and loyalty.

Durante mucho tiempo, Homo sapiens prefirió considerarse separado de los animales, un huérfano carente de familia, sin hermanos ni primos y, más importante todavía, sin padres.

For example, Israeli nationalism is very concerned about the question "Will Jerusalem be ruled by Israelis or Palestinians a century from now?" but it does not concern itself with the question "Will Earth be ruled by Sapiens or cyborgs a century from now?

Zaman alabilir ama nihayetinde Kuzey Kore, Irak ve El Salvador da Danimarka'ya ya da Iowa'ya benzeyecek.

Daca vrei sa-i determini pe oameni sa creada in enitati imaginare precum zeii si natiunile, ar trebui sa-i faci sa sacrifice ceva de pret.

In previous eras national identities were forged because humans faced problems and opportunities that were far beyond the scope of local tribes. Now we need a new global identity because national institutions are incapable of handling a set of unprecedented global predicaments. We now have a global ecology, a global economy, and a global science—

In previous eras national identities were forged because humans faced problems and opportunities that were far beyond the scope of local tribes. Now we need a new global identity because national institutions are incapable of handling a set of unprecedented global predicaments. We now have a global ecology, a global economy, and a global science—but we are still stuck with only national politics.

At the entrance of the temple of Apollo at Delphi, pilgrims were greeted by the inscription: 'Know thyself!' The implication was that the average person is ignorant of his true self, and is therefore likely to be ignorant of true happiness. Freud would probably concur.*

Biologically, humans are divided into males and females. A male Homo sapiens has one X chromosome and one Y chromosome; a female Homo sapiens has two Xs. But 'man' and 'woman' name social, not biological, categories.

When we say 'I', we mean the story in our head, not the onrushing stream of experiences we undergo.

you don't feel at home in your body, you will never feel at home in the world.

O sucesso não é garantido. Os indivíduos do sexo masculino, em particular, vivem um temor constante de perder sua afirmação de masculinidade. Durante toda a história, estiveram dispostos a arriscar e até mesmo sacrificar a vida, apenas para que as pessoas dissessem: "Ele é um homem de verdade!".

Meaning is created when many people weave together a common network of stories.

Como bomberos en un mundo sin fuego, en el siglo XXI la humanidad necesita plantearse una pregunta sin precedentes: ¿qué vamos a hacer con nosotros?