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- Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity…
- 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. Over-concentration…
- There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be…
- When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at…
- We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries.…
- Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and…
- Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.
- My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm-as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use,…
- I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that a world without…
- There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and…
- My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.
- Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine…
- Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
- Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
- All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
- My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
- A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist…
- Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been…
- A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by…
- Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind…
- High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival…
- It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into…
- For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman…
- All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist - if you don't have the fire of competition deep down inside, you're…
- The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle