Catharine MacKinnon (Catharine Alice MacKinnon) Quotes

Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.

Catharine MacKinnon

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• The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Up
  • Think
  • Problem

• You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Me
  • Scare

• Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Remember

• I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • World
  • Leader

• While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.

  

  Sam Harris
  • War
  • Fear
  • Ideas

• Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Better
  • White
  • Stereotypes

• Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Future
  • Success
  • Story

• Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Thought
  • Wind
  • Writer

• I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Control
  • Write
  • Over

• Ernie Hudson was new to the comedy world, and being the fourth Ghostbuster, he would have ideas, and he would talk to Ivan Reitman, and Ivan would kind of put him off. I could see how disappointed he was.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • World
  • Comedy
  • Kind

• I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • House
  • Dance
  • Gun

• Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • God
  • Believe
  • Reality

• I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Opinion
  • Moral

• Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

  

  Livy
  • Truth

• You will not have forgotten that it was a maxim with Foxey - our revered father, gentlemen - 'Always suspect everybody.' That's the maxim to go through life with!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Life
  • Father

• I can't even give my father a proper gift. Every single Father's Day means so much to me. I'm so close to him. He's my big brother, but also my father.

  

  Kyrie Irving
  • Father
  • Single
  • Brother

• When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.

  

  Agnetha Faltskog
  • Trying
  • Song

• At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for our abiding fascination with it, our longing to return there, whether to sail the main or merely contemplate its restless enormity.

  

  J. D. McClatchy
  • May
  • Sea
  • Fascination

• I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I'm always the one throwing down on the mic.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • People
  • Real
  • Band

• We can't think of any better way of becoming our best selves, than by finding something we're great at!

  

  Reshma Saujani
  • Thinking
  • Becoming
  • Findings

• So much wealth and so much power, Armstrong thought, yet with a little luck, we can bring you down like Humpty-Dumpty...

  

  James Clavell
  • Power
  • Luck

• To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Power

• Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Power
  • Evidence
  • Nonsense