Quotes About Personhood

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

I think the inner and outer aspects of the self together make one person.

We value people not just for what they do but for what they are.

I have said that I am in favor of personhood as a concept. I am not taking a position on any of the state amendments, and I have said over and over again - and it has been reported over and over again - that I am not in favor of banning any common forms of birth control in Colorado or in the United States.

I was not creating icons when I wrote the 'The X-Men' and the 'The New Mutants.' I was creating people.

I can't give up my own identity.

I think, in the end, we are all our own individual person.

Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from everything else, absolutely individual and independent, we've celebrated by giving it a real name. My self.

I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that, but in the end, I'm just a person.

When you are some-'one', why would you wish to be some-'thing'?

If you make a man a symbol of things that are bigger than any one person can possibly be, you risk stripping that man of his sense of who he really is.

I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.

A person is worth something simply because he is a person.

If there was anything Jesus wanted everyone to understand, it was this: a person is worth something simply because he or she is a person.

Autoimmunity is internalized by patients as an opportunity for the ultimate self-management project. But in fact it is a manifestation of a flawed collective project. If it is an indictment of anything, it is an indictment not of our personhood but of our impulse to see social problems as being about our personhood, instead of a consequence of our collective shortcomings as co-citizens of this place and time.

am I me and you are you

I have signed the personhood petition. I have taken the petitions to my church and circulating into my church. And I have a legislative record that backs up my support for life.

Just because someone signed up for something or takes advice or has managers or works in entertainment or show business with other people doesn't mean they don't have a brain, okay? It doesn't mean that they're not a real person.

Lo que importa es lo que somos capaces de llegar a ser como personas, no dónde hemos nacido. Nacer en un lugar puede determinar el mundo de las emociones íntimas, los sabores, olores, la música, el paisaje… pero ni quiero ni permito que nada de esto me determine como persona.

no está limitado por un cuerpo, sin embargo es una persona. Él siente, piensa, ama, perdona, simpatiza con los problemas y las tristezas que enfrentamos.

The focus on self has led our society into a fascination with pleasure, emotional and sexual stimulation, and "personal fulfillment." America's compulsion for "maximum personhood" is evidenced everywhere.

Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

On the outside, the pony insisted. Not inside. Inside you're People.

Soy yo, soy él. Somos, pero soy yo, primeramente soy yo, defenderé ser yo hasta que no pueda más.