Quotes About Identity

The little man is still a man.

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

Beloved brother, let us not forget that man can never get away from himself. [Ger., Lass uns, geliebter Bruder, nicht vergessen, Dass von sich selbst der Mensch nicht scheiden kann.]

The history of a man is in his character.

Let every man sing his own song in life.

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?

Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!

Man is more than constitutions.

Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!

I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.

Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.

Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.

He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.

People close to me called me 'Curry in a Hurry.' I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy.

I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.