Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Love is imploring humanity: Set down your burden of doubt; in perfect faith there is neither fear nor struggle.” — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place. — 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
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
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
I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like… — 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 Image
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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 Image
Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image