Quotes About Personhood

A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe where to die is to become property and to be created outwith a gift of parental DNA is to be doomed to slavery.

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the 'action generation' whose motto is 'do more but feel less.'

Being a person means never being sure that you're one.

Personhood then is also in the mesh-- it may look solid from a distance, but as we approach it we discover that it is full of holes

But it would be more precise to say that the master aimed to transform the slave into an automaton by obliterating his sense of personhood.

The best way I can state this aim of life, as I see it coming to light in my relationship with my clients, is to use the words of Soren Kierkegaar —"to be that self which one truly is.

Who am I really? Am I still the same person if I'm not even technically a person anymore? Does being stronger make me different? Will it?

Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.

One does not have to be a priest to be a man!

Healthy personalities accept themselves not in any self-idolizing way, but in the sense that they see themselves as persons who are worth giving to another and worthy to receive from another.

Pues bien: en contra de tu parecer, las personas no se dividen en principales y secundarias. Yo no soy una secundaria. Tengo mi propia vida, que para mí es tan importante como para ti la tuya, y en mi vida soy yo quien toma las decisiones.

Unborn babies - that is, fetuses, embryos, and even 'zygotes' - are innocent human beings.

You can't make a person, a human being with a first kiss and a sense of humor and a favorite sandwich, and then expect her to dissolve back into scribbled notes and whiskeyed coffee when she no longer suits your purposes. I think I always knew she would come back to find me, someday.

To be physically fit is just a small aspect. You can be a beautiful physical specimen, but you're empty as far as what it takes to be a person, and that shows up real fast.

I don't think we should view corporations as people for the purposes of speech.

In Concerning the Trinity, Richard argued that the statement "God is love" requires God to be a Trinity; love must be a relationship between persons, and where two persons love each other perfectly, they will desire a third person whom they can both love in common.

At the end of the day, I'm my own person.

I'm not a brand name, I'm a person.

I was born Chinese, and I write in Chinese. I don't think there's any need to evade this... to a writer, as to a person, what matters is not his political label or his nationality, but whether he is a person and whether his work is worth looking at.

I'm not just a brain to you. I'm a person.

Every baby is a person who has language, feelings, and a unique personality—and, therefore, deserves respect.

Culture, then, only truly becomes culture when it is embodied in someone.

What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart. You won't be able to put me down.

For what was a person but the sum of all the scraps of their memory and experience: a finite set of components with an infinite array of expressions.