Quotes About Identity

Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.

.you are not him or her, you be you..

By Identifying "SELF" as something you are just limiting it, killing the peace, love and harmony.

Freedom will remain elusive as long as there remains a 'self' to be freed.

I really am a cat transformed into a woman.

It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.

It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.

Hey! You can be more than just a car company. You can be more than just a pet food company. You can aspire to loving dogs, rather than just feeding dogs.

The body is like a companion, a friendly pet that follows one around...One can continue to own the body and be responsible for it without identifying with it as one's identity.

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

Butch didn't live in his own place. He didn't spend his own money. He had no job, no future. He was a well-kept pet, not a man.

I was so flat I used to put Xs on my chest and write, 'You are here.' I wore angora sweaters just so the guys would have something to pet.

It's always weird to eat something that is a pet elsewhere.

I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.

Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.

The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?

I'm human, you're human. So they said, but inside we're all animals.

Philosophy is transcendental homelessness; it is the urge to be at home everywhere

Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

Remain true to yourself and your philosophy.