Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Sometimes you have to protect players from themselves.

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

Protect me from what I want.

I am incredibly, incredibly fortunate about the opportunities I've had. But at the same time, I've had plenty of opportunities to screw it up, too. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is 'No...' and not feel the need to do everything. It's about doing what rings true to me.

Human nature is you get carried away, so we have to protect ourselves from ourselves.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Nobody else is going to protect yourself. You've got to protect yourself.

Being sexy doesn't mean you shouldn't be safe.

If you hold yourself dear, protect yourself well.

The disciplined are free.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

You don't try to do more than you should.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

From time to time I might push a little bit too hard and I have got to be a bit more careful.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.