Quotes about Personhood

Deepak Chopra

Either you're a person wondering if you have a soul, or you're a soul who knows that being a person isn't real.

Desmond Tutu

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

Alveda King

Abortion is not health care. A woman has a right to her body, but that is not her body. What about the baby?

Marco Rubio

I'm proud of the fact that the Republican Party is the pro-life party on the issue of life.

Desmond Tutu

A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.

Charles Krauthammer

I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

Desmond Tutu

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.

Zadie Smith

I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

Michael J. Knowles

No argument for abortion survives scientific, philosophical, or theological scrutiny.

Francis Crick

You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.

Daniel Cormier

At the end of the day, I'm a man.

Pat Buchanan

I'd rather be pro-life than President.

This was a variation of the famous Henry Clay quotation.

Nancy Reagan

I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.

Katha Pollitt

I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.

Mike Huckabee

I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.

Allen Iverson

Everybody is their own person.

Katha Pollitt

Abortion opponents make up in passion what they lack in numbers.

Amber Liu

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

Ayn Rand

One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living.