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Camille Paglia Quotes

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Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species  (Camille Paglia Quotes) The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny  (Camille Paglia Quotes) Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated  (Camille Paglia Quotes) Twentieth century physics, going full circle back to Heracleitus, postulates that all matter is in motion. In other words, there is no thing, only energy  (Camille Paglia Quotes) High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces  (Camille Paglia Quotes) American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U. S. Cannot fix the fate of every nation  (Camille Paglia Quotes) Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper - aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts  (Camille Paglia Quotes) Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women  (Camille Paglia Quotes) I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity  (Camille Paglia Quotes) I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change  (Camille Paglia Quotes) Within the U. S., The Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo  (Camille Paglia Quotes) Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men’s tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature  (Camille Paglia Quotes) Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour  (Camille Paglia Quotes) My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football.... Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport  (Camille Paglia Quotes) Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing.?  (Camille Paglia Quotes) Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son  (Camille Paglia Quotes) Women’s studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink. It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women  (Camille Paglia Quotes) Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality  (Camille Paglia Quotes) Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write  (Camille Paglia Quotes) Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork  (Camille Paglia Quotes) I’m for a high libido president! I applaud him if he gets up and picks up women  (Camille Paglia Quotes) Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on  (Camille Paglia Quotes) Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of morally or politically correct sexual behavior will be subverted by nature’s daemonic law  (Camille Paglia Quotes) How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons  (Camille Paglia Quotes) What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature’s daemonic ugliness will erupt  (Camille Paglia Quotes) Most people aren’t sure what’s going to happen on a first date. Given that ambiguity, every woman must be totally aware at every moment that she is responsible for every choice she makes.... protect yourselves. See trouble coming  (Camille Paglia Quotes) If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts  (Camille Paglia Quotes) It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal  (Camille Paglia Quotes) The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification  (Camille Paglia Quotes) In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity  (Camille Paglia Quotes)
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