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Nature Quotes by Camille Paglia

38 Nature quotes by Camille Paglia

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Nature is portrayed as a ruthless force that experiments on life, letting only the strongest survive. Paglia says beauty is a weapon that can shape and freeze the wild flux of nature. She also links love and sexuality to cosmic forces, suggesting that heterosexual love moves in sync with the universe.

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I guess I'm just a natural warrior.

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The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way.

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“Nature is always pulling the rug out from under our pompous ideals.”

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Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

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Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live…

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Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.

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Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female…

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They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.

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Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

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Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

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Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.

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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

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Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation…

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Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of…

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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in…

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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting…

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What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and…

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Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality…

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Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more…

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My argument has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right…

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Homosexuality is not 'normal' On the contrary it is a challenge to the norm...Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And…

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The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as…

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There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear…

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All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the…

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Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature.

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Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of…

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“We are merely one of a multitude of species upon which nature indiscriminately exerts its force. Nature has a master agenda we…

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Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures…

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The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not…

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Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but…

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I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is…

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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that…

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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal…

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The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels…

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The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with…

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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment…

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America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not…

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The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot…

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Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.

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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…

The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and…

Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of…

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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.…