“Nature is always pulling the rug out from under our pompous ideals.” — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“We are merely one of a multitude of species upon which nature indiscriminately exerts its force. Nature has a master agenda we… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
My argument has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is not 'normal' On the contrary it is a challenge to the norm...Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share
As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign. — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy. — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? — Camille Paglia Copy Share
In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
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… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
