"I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous for censorship. But let us not sacrifice our civil liberties on the altar of her obsession."

-- Richard Posner

#Sacrifice Quotes #Government Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.”
“The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.”
“Hey, if you decided to tear up the town, you can always use the leftover bread from my breakfast in place of your cane. I'm pretty sure it's hard enough to bust heads.”
“Women like to take their clothes off. I noticed that. Especially in front of a camera. Or a mirror.”
“It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off!”
“The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.”
“The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. Itâ€™s a vicious cycle.”
“This means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others away and darkness results. Yet the reverse is not true: take away darkness and there is only more darkness. Darkness can exist by itself. Light cannot.”

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