#aw

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#ask #dawn #dogma #essential #going

I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#awe #i #know #me #why

I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything! ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#away #because #get #i #i can

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#away #family #family members #i #inner

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#call #confusion #dignity #even #give

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#aware #big #fiction #how #leaving

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#big #commission #crawling #lone #think

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#away #best #curtain #falls #go

I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware. ↗

— Diosdado Macapagal

#i #power #run #sat #sumptuous

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#hopes #law #laws #people #power