{"quotes":[{"text":"If you think you can stand to know what you’re made of, try kneeling before God.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["god","identity","kneeling","made","made-of","personhood","self-analysis","self-discovery","stand","standing","submission","transparency","vulnerability","vulnerable"],"id":4939,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it. Although Siddhartha fled from the Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable; the hour was inevitable when he would again find himself in sunshine or in moonlight, in shadow or in rain, and was again Self and Siddhartha, again felt the torment of the onerous life cycle.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["loss","personhood"],"id":19532,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He will be your master. You had better please him.","author":"Philippa Gregory","tags":["history","marriage","ownership","personhood","women"],"id":21970,"author_id":"Philippa+Gregory"},{"text":"There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself.","author":"Colin Cotterill","tags":["character","personhood","self-possession"],"id":70190,"author_id":"Colin+Cotterill"},{"text":"We think of dogs as being more like people than pigs; but pigs are highly intelligent animals and if we kept pigs as pets and reared dogs for food, we would probably reverse our order of preference. Are we turning persons into bacon?","author":"Peter Singer","tags":["animal-rights","ethics","personhood","vegetarianism"],"id":70411,"author_id":"Peter+Singer"},{"text":"...A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe where to die is to become property and to be created outwith a gift of parental DNA is to be doomed to slavery.","author":"Charles Stross","tags":["civil-rights","ownership","personhood","property","slavery","upload"],"id":74684,"author_id":"Charles+Stross"},{"text":"The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.","author":"Jaron Lanier","tags":["ai","artificial-intelligence","computers","personhood","technology"],"id":90869,"author_id":"Jaron+Lanier"},{"text":"Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.","author":"Orson Scott Card","tags":["childhood","introduction","orson-scott-card","personhood"],"id":108878,"author_id":"Orson+Scott+Card"},{"text":"There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense.","author":"Philip K. Dick","tags":["human-nature","personhood"],"id":113914,"author_id":"Philip+K.+Dick"},{"text":"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.","author":"Antoine de Saint-Exupéry","tags":["mysticism","personhood"],"id":115583,"author_id":"Antoine+de+Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}