Catharine MacKinnon (Catharine Alice MacKinnon) Quotes
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I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.
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I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.
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There comes the baffling call of God in our lives also. The call of God can never be stated explicitly; it is implicit. The call of God is like the call of the sea, no one hears it but the one who has the nature of the sea in him. It cannot be stated definitely what the call of God is to, because his call is to be in comradeship with himself, for his own purposes, and the test is to believe that God knows what he is after.
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Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive - but that was totally subconscious.
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When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.
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It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.
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Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.
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Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.
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In dealing with Islamic countries, insist on reciprocation or no deal. If they want to build a mosque or Islamic school in our country, we should be able to build a church and a Christian school in theirs...
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Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.
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Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world.
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The great lesson here for all imaginatively gridlocked systems is that the acceptance and even cherishing of uncertainty is critical to keeping the human mind from voyaging into the delusion of omniscience.
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Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don’t really “need” anything new, so we only create what we want.
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One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.
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The perpetrators of the bombing at the Grand Hotel, Brighton, could be hanged for high treason. ... They are just as guilty as Guy Fawkes was 380 years ago.
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The thing I was up against in documentary films - was trying to get non-actors to convincingly play themselves in a way I'd come to know before the camera started rolling. And many non-actors can't do that convincingly, even if they just have to play themselves - they can't be naturalistic. And I would always want to recreate something I'd witnessed them do or say, and it just would be incredibly difficult because of the fact they weren't actors.
