Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive. Camille Paglia More Quotes by Camille Paglia More Quotes From Camille Paglia Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges. Camille Paglia men sex fall Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad. Camille Paglia adaptation mad consciousness In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a hormonal element in sex differences. It was utterly unacceptable at that time to think or say such a thing... If you have any doubts about the effect of hormones on emotion, libido and aggression, have a chat with a transexual, who must take hormones medically. He or she will set you straight. Camille Paglia differences sex thinking Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on. Camille Paglia males accomplishment water Women will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality. Camille Paglia sexuality taken responsibility I feel genuinely sorry for those who are so blinded by narrow partisanship that they cannot appreciate Limbaugh's energy, intelligence and satiric skill. They live in a box with bags over their heads. Though he and I hardly agree on politics (I voted for Ralph Nader last year and may go Green again in 2004), I respect Limbaugh as a political analyst and deft rhetorician who is a master of the microphone and who knows how to engage and challenge a vast audience. Camille Paglia skills sorry years Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! Camille Paglia syrup compassion kindness 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 political spirit america Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. Camille Paglia prisoner education Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses. Camille Paglia feminism feminist vegetables I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like hard-core gay activists) who profane sacred ground do not have the imagination to educate the young. … Until the left comes to its senses about the cultural power of religion, the right will continue to broaden its appeal. Camille Paglia gay religious believe Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power struggle of sex, which religion has never been able to stop. Prostitutes, pornographers, and their patrons are marauders in the forest of archaic night. Camille Paglia struggle night sex Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due. Camille Paglia nature giving art Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s. Camille Paglia feminist past years The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images. Camille Paglia self love art If people could see the inside of my brain, I would be in prison. Camille Paglia would-be brain people Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing. Camille Paglia creative criticism spirit Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity. Camille Paglia identity may men My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape. Camille Paglia space mind advice Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think. Camille Paglia doors children thinking
