John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.

The individual is greater than the state.

Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.

. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything.

Equality implies individuality.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Hey, I'm a human being also.

I am a person. I am not a soap opera.

Each man must have his "I"; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

Society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.

The individual is prior to society and society must be ordered to the good of the individual.

Wherever there is repression of the individual, wherever there are acts contrary to the nature of the individual, there can be no greater crime.

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away

To have a personal life is the minimum freedom you have to give to a human being.

Each of us has a right to name ourselves as we will.

It's a principle of my philosophy that you have to respect the individual human being.

Mankind is at its best when it is most free.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.