Quotes About Identity

In the gay world anything outside London counts as country.

Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.

Deprived of our memories we are deprived of our very selves. Without our histories we are vacated. We may walk and talk and eat and sleep but, in truth, we are nobody.

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45.

I feel Italian, but I also feel French," she said. "Italy is deeper. France is strong, but it's after." Actually, one of the surprises about meeting [Valeria Bruni Tedeschi] is how Italian she seems. Though she has no trace of an Italian accent when speaking French—and says that, in Italian, she shows signs of having lived in France—she sounds Italian when speaking English. There is no suggestion of French at all.

However hard you try one can never be a great Hindu, Muslim, Christian, or whatever. One can only be a great unbranded soul once the soul becomes refined, undefined. It simply dissolves its greatness into humility personified, ego neutralized, and gets eternally MickeyMized.

Humans worldwide speak different languages and animals speak the same. Animals remain anonymous and humans after self branding still ask what's in a name. If only we could become more carefree about our identities ensconced in our egos, we would be relaxed and be more dis-ease free. Be carefree and immunize, breathe in liberty & MickeyMize.

There is an actor in every character you are playing. We are sons, daughters, students, lovers, friends, employees, students, parents, etc. Be true and real under every skin you wear, don't be characterized, be yourself first, sincere, real and get MickeyMized.

You've got to recognize, there will never be another you. It has nothing to do with ego; it happens to be the truth. There will never be another person the same. There'll never be another you.

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.

the father figure was perhaps physically, and definitely emotionally, absent when the boy was in his latency phase. As a boy, therefore, the serial killer had no positive father figure with whom to identify.

Simons admitted to being sodomised as a young boy, during which he was the passive victim. The only way he could master this abuse was by repeating it, and by identifying with his tormentor by becoming the active aggressor. He reversed the passive-active roles.

Simons selected a victim just like himself, namely a Coloured schoolboy between the ages of eight to fourteen. Symbolically he committed suicide when he killed that boy, for he was killing himself.

Simons could not identify this ideal self-image with the dark side of his personality – the side which murdered. He attributed the identity of his original aggressor, namely his brother, to the murderous side of himself and said in his statement to the detectives that it was the spirit of his deceased brother who ordered him to murder the children.

Mhlengwa Zikode fixated in the Oedipus phase. His father was paralysed and Mhlengwa won the favour of both his mother and his older and only sister, who was his primary caretaker. He had a symbiotic relationship with both these women and could never really succeed in differentiating his own personality from theirs.

Serial killers do not belong, not to anyone.

By sodomising the boys, Wilken fell into the typical pattern of passive-active role reversal by identifying with the aggressor and selecting a victim like himself. When he sodomised and strangled 12-year-old Henry Bakers he even told Henry that he was going to do to him what was done to himself when he was a child of Henry's age.

Serial killers are not monsters; they are human beings with tortured souls.

As a young boy he was terrorised by his peers who teased him about the fact that he was adopted.

Boetie got involved with another woman of a different race, claiming that he never wanted to have sex with a white woman again in case she might be his lost sister.

A killer who operates in the dark of night and takes precautions to hide his identity has a low risk, while one who blatantly commits the murder without regard for being identified takes a greater risk. Serial killers' arrogance sometimes causes them to take greater risks.

Serial killers generally present themselves as normal people to the rest of the community. They go to church, they take their children to school, visit restaurants and buy groceries just like everyone else. They are someone's son, someone's brother, someone's neighbour. I sometimes think of them as nice people who have this nasty habit of killing others.

he identified with the aggressor and took on the active role while the boys represented himself and became the passive victims. In my opinion, Simons committed suicide on a psychological level every time he killed one of those boys.

the serial killer has no positive father figure with whom to identify during the latency period and he does not manage the socialisation process, and therefore does not develop a superego, or develops only faint traces of a superego.