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Male Quotes by Camille Paglia
- Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression…
- If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male…
- Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male…
- The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
- What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization, but an internation conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge…
- Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse…
- Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism and orderliness. It…
- 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…
- Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a…
- The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes…
- 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…
- Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power…
- Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days…
- Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality.…
- I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world…
- History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence
More Male Quotes
- You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood
- I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body. — Javier Bardem
- A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to… — Roseanne Barr
- At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are… — Jean Baudrillard
- Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she… — Simone de Beauvoir
- Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's… — Simone de Beauvoir
- I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not… — Sarah Bernhardt
- What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's… — Halle Berry
- I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male… — Jacqueline Bisset
- Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by… — Bjork
- There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society. — Jo Brand
- My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted… — Jo Brand