Quotes About Personhood

Holiness has to do with who we are in God, where we abide as a "self" with an utterly reconstituted sense of our own personhood.

The scalding rhetoric of the "pro-life" movement seems to propose the derivative claim that a fetus is from the moment of its conception a full moral person with rights and interests equal in importance to those of any other member of the moral community. But very few people—even those who belong to the most vehemently anti-abortion groups—actually believe that, whatever they say.

Even if we all decided to define personhood to include fertilized eggs and embryos and fetuses, they would not have the right to use a woman's body against her will and at whatever cost to herself. Persons are not entitled to use one another like that: Even if I am the only person in the world who can save my child by donating a kidney, the decision is still mine to make.

A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should have the rights of persons.

Ask not what disease the person has, but rather what person the disease has

Then growing up is not a matter of discovering who or what one really is, but joining the general amnesia whereby each of us pretends to be an autonomous person and learns how to play the social game of constantly reassuring each other that, yes, you are a person, just like me, and I'm okay, you're okay.

After all, how could I be a person if Ultimate Reality were impersonal?

it was the nature of being a person, and everything they did—every single thing, in school or at home, with others or alone, conscious or unconscious, meaningful or nonsensical, every single thing—was geared toward discovering what exactly it meant to be a person. The meaning would always elude them, because elusiveness was in fact its very heart.

Am I a person or a weapon?" Always he wanted to know that he was a person. He just kept giving me different choices so one time I might slip up and say, "You're not a person." "You are a person. But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.

Wick never believed he was a person, was continually being undone by that. Borne was always trying to be a person because I wanted him to be one, because he thought that was right. We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means

I don't want anybody treating me as a "person" rather than as a woman. Our sexual differences are the terms of our life, and to obscure them in any way is to weaken the very fabric of life itself. When they are lost, we are lost.

My autism is part of who I am, not all of who I am.

The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

No es casualidad que los humanos lleven nombres en lugar de matrícula: el nombre es la llave de la persona. Es el delicado ruido de su cerradura cuando queremos abrir su puerta. Es la metálica melodía que hace que el don sea posible.

I don't believe corporations are people.

You are someone and you have a right to your life.

Whether I'm single or in a relationship, I'm the same person. The same human being.

When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.

Though Toyota or Argentina has neither a body nor a mind, they are subject to international laws, they can own land and money, and they can sue and be sued in court. We might soon grant similar status to algorithms.

He is a human being, Sergei Aleksandrovich, whereas you and I are just specialists.

I'm not a thing. I'm not an it. I'm a person. I am a her. - Stephanie (the reflection)

I wasn't a puzzle. I was just a girl.

Ruthie had found the idea that we were only a series of neatly constructed puzzle pieces or building blocks vaguely unsettling—even at eight, she wanted there to be more to it than that.

I'm not a compilation of symptoms. Not a casualty of shitty parents and an even shittier chemical makeup. Not a problem. Not a diagnosis. Not an illness. Not something to be rescued. I'm a person.