“It's a surreal experience to have your personhood be reduced to a prop.” — Alok Vaid-Menon Copy Share Image
“To respond to the call of the other is to be a full and active human being.” — David Murphy Copy Share Image
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through… — Zoe Lofgren Copy Share Image
“Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.” — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
We do not gain or surrender our personhood as we age. We live one life from conception to death. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. — James Hollis Copy Share Image
History moves fast. It's hard to believe that gay Americans achieved full constitutional personhood just five years after corporations did! — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable! — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Mother, before God," I say, my voice shaking with tears, "I swear that I have to believe that there is more for… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire family… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
“...A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
“Poor little girl. Poor little girl," Nan says, and at first I think she is speaking of the baby, perhaps it is… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
If you play a game like 'Grand Theft Auto' you don't go home afterwards and cry because you ran over a couple… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
“The tears in my eyes are now running down my cheeks at the thought that I have been his wife and his… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Suddenly someone stops long enough to listen. And in that simple action, some marginalized person finally realizes that they actually have a… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“what was astonishing to him was how people seemed to run out of their own being, run out of whatever the stuff… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I have said that I am in favor of personhood as a concept. I am not taking a position on any of… — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
“It matters not at all that I do not want to marry, that I am afraid of the wedding, afraid of consummating… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He… — John Stott Copy Share Image
It might be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
It's a sign of respect and connection to learn the name of someone else, a sign of disrespect to ignore it. And… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
What is emotional intimacy? It is that depp sense of being connected to one another. It is feeling loved, respected and appreciated,… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
“When man loves as a biological hypostasis, he inevitably excludes others: the family has priority in love over "strangers," the husband lays… — John D. Zizoulas Copy Share Image
“There is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are pervasively social, establishing not the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“But the Turing test cuts both ways. You can't tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you've just lowered your… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“There are at least two ways to believe in the idea of quality. You can believe there's something ineffable going on within… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“That this signified not a parallel co-existence of the ecclesial with the biological hypostasis but a transcendence of the latter by the… — John D. Zizoulas Copy Share Image
“The term persona comes to us from the Roman and Etruscan theater, where it denoted the mask worn by the actor and… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows the experience of encountering other persons only under the aspect of how they intersect with our projects, and of noticing… — John F. Crosby Copy Share Image
“Since God knows created beings as the realizations of His will, it is not being itself but the ultimate will of God's… — John D. Zizoulas Copy Share Image
Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Evil and sin weave their way into every aspect of God’s creation and every dimension of human personhood and life on earth.” — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
I still do not understand how a corporation can have person-hood if it has no soul and never dies. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“She knows her timing, always knows. The time to strike or the time to starve. Her eyes as a clock, she watches… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
