“To declare in St John's words that Jesus and the Father are one is to claim that Jesus's dependence on the Other is not self-estrangement but self-ful lment. At the core of his identity ..lies nothing but unconditional love.” SelfLyingFatherJesusIdentityClaimsCoreUnconditional LoveDependenceUnconditionalEstrangement Author:Terry Eagleton
“Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position of subject; they must at all times subsume themselves and the other under the same category. At the same time, the relation of reciprocity of recognition demands the non-identity of one and the other, both must also maintain their absolute difference, for to be a subject implies the claim of individuation.” DifferencesSubjectsIdentityPositionDemandClaimsRelationAbsolutesAll TimeRecognitionCategoriesIdenticalReciprocityIndividuation Author:Jurgen Habermas
“Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.” FacesMemoriesIdentityUniqueClaimsOneselfShrinksCatching Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“The yearning to be Afghan, to be part of the country, part of the land helped me separate myself from the casual traveler and claim my Afghan identity.” CountryLandIdentityClaimsYearningTravelerCasualAfghan Author:Hyder Akbar
“It's the ultimate identity theft when you start messing with somebody's work. Thinking that you could edit the work, or mix it differently, or re-EQ it, or make claims about it that aren't true.” ThinkingIdentityUltimateClaimsTheftEditsIdentity Theft Author:Gail Zappa
“Ironically enough, if the case involves race, and one claims that race is a disqualifying factor, nobody could hear the case. Everybody comes to these cases with some preconceptions, and the premise of our judicial system is that judges by training and by ethical codes are obligated to set those prejudices aside and to decide on the facts and the law. And to claim that somebody can't simply because of their racial identity is deeply offensive.” IfsEnoughFactsLawRaceCasesIdentityJudgingTrainingClaimsPrejudiceFactorsCodeEthicalOffensivePremisesJudicialPreconceptionsJudicial SystemRacial Identity Author:Deborah Rhode
“I pray for that moment in which I think we can claim to the world that we are now in a different, new era of Indo-American relationship of trust, of working together, partnership strengthened both by our commitment to common values, and also the identity of interests.” ThinkingWorldDifferentMomentsTogetherValuesInterestCommonIdentityPrayingCommitmentClaimsErasWorking TogetherThat MomentPartnershipI PrayNew Era Author:Manmohan Singh
“[Identity liberalism] is about recognition and self-definition. It's narcissistic. It's isolating. It looks within. And it also makes two contradictory claims on people.” PeopleLooksTwoSelfIdentityClaimsDefinitionsRecognitionLiberalismContradictoryNarcissistic Author:Steve Inskeep
“While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.” SelfPastSpiritualSimpleIdentityAchievementDrawsClaimsExtraordinaryEncountersSpiritual LifeMysticalTrue SelfOrdinarinessAdulationMystical Experiences Author:Brennan Manning
“People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are all, by necessity, individuals with distinct identities and comparable claims on existence. Such words are nevertheless an apt vehicle for conveying the disparate treatment accorded to different groups. Those without status are all but invisible: they are treated brusquely by others, their complexities trampled upon and their singularities ignored.” PeopleImportantDifferentCoursesIndividualExistenceGroupsIdentityPositionClaimsInvisibleTreatedComplexityTreatmentVehicleNeverthelessIgnoredSingularityNonsensicalInverseConveying Author:Alain de Botton