"Straight men who visit prostitutes are valiantly striving……" — Camille Paglia
"Straight men who visit prostitutes are valiantly striving to keep sex free from emotion, duty, family--in other words, from society, religion, and procreative Mother Nature."
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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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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
— Saint Augustine
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
— Charles Babbage
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do…
— John Banville
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We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and…
— Roy Barnes
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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go…
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as…
— Jacques Barzun
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
— Samuel Adams
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators…
— Gary Bauer
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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