"Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism……" — Camille Paglia
"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."
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205 Quotes by Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia has 205 quotes on this site.
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Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.
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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…
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Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other…
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Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality.
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Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold…
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Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.
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Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones
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Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
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The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to…
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I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in America. For me the great mission…
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A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.
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Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy…
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More Aristocracies Quotes
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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all…
— Mark Twain
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Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his…
— Mark Twain
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To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media…
— Rupert Murdoch
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The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
— Ezra Stiles
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It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their…
— Henry James Sumner Maine
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Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.Aristocracy with the meaning - the best are ruling.Peoples do never…
— Joseph Goebbels
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Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal…
— Mark Twain
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In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.
— Ellen Gilchrist
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