Quotes About Personhood

It's a cheval, said Mick, huge eyed. ...A mindless, soulless, sexless shell, genderless as a baby doll, she said to me--at me--whoever she was talking to, it wasn't me. She didn't believe I existed.

I don't want to end my life, he said, but I'd rather end it while I am still myself, rather than become less and less of a person.

dolls have no identity

Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.

Men are not potatoes!

Der Mensch ist entweder im Stande, rechtswidrig zu handeln oder er ist es nicht, denn dazwischen gibt es nichts Drittes und Mittleres. Durch diese Fähigkeit wird er strafbar, durch seine Eigenschaft der Strafbarkeit wird er Rechtsperson, und als Rechtsperson hat er teil an der überpersönlichen Wohltat des Rechts.

Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!

children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.

Children are not tings to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.

The person and the name become equivalent; the name demonstrates that the person is a lasting, indestructible substance—and not a process.

Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

A telephone number shouldn't represent a home or a car or a restaurant, but instead a person.

As persons, so Mournier maintained, we possess both a spiritual and temporal dimension; we exist in history, in relationship with others, but open to transcendence and ultimately to God. This concept of the person, he believed, was denied as much by an atheistic totalitarianism of the Left as by the bourgeois materialism of capitalist society. To the extent that Christianity had become infected by the bourgeois spirit, it had become a prop in what he called, 'the established disorder.

While he affirms the dignity and significance of human personhood he understands that apart from God man is simply a biological machine, an accident of nature, a cipher.

Now it seems to me that the right way to love a dog is to love him not as a person, but as a creature that has been raised to the edge of personhood, so as to look into a place that is opaque to him but from which emerge signals that he understands in another way than we who send them.

If we base our love for our dog on the premise that he, like us, is a person, then we damage both him and ourselves. We damage him by making demands that no animal can fully understand – holding him to account in ways that make no sense to him. We will feel bound to keep him alive, as we keep each other alive, for the sake of a relation that, being personal, is also eternal.

Todas las personas que no se conforman con la ortodoxia, que tienen ideas propias. En una palabra, personas que son alguien.

We were all just people who chose to call ourselves by curious things known as names, and the only significant difference between any of us lay in what we did with our lives.

Como feministas tenemos que reivindicar que tenemos derechos , no porque seamos madres sino porque somos personas.

they're contained in their bodies, in the biographical facts of their lives.

The making of personhood through synthetic assemblage or accretion can be impoverishing and additive. It can produce a person-assemblage that destroys autonomy but one that disrupts the privileged notion of natural bodies as well.

It is not only that bodies can leave their residue in the things they produce (an insight that object studies has taught us), but also that objectness reveals the divergent, layered, and sometimes annihilating gestures that can make up personhood. More than memorializing bodies that might otherwise not be remembered, Li's porcelain woman explores what it would mean to instantiate through excess materiality the dematerialized nonbody.

Don't let yourself feel worthless; often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it; at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 P.M. If

Considero mie, con maggiore consanguineità e intimità, talune figure che sono scritte nei libri, certe immagini che ho conosciuto nelle illustrazioni, più di molte persone che sono considerate reali, che sono fatte di quell'inutilità metafisica chiamata carne e ossa.