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Western Quotes by Camille Paglia
- Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night…
- 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…
- The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love,…
- Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the…
- Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live.
- The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.
- The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.
- The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death…
- I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right like it or…
- 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…
- Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
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- I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western. — Jensen Ackles
- Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything. — Dave Barry
- There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all… — Abu Bakar Bashir
- I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities. — Cate Blanchett
- Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a… — Geraldine Brooks
- In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not. — Jessica Alba
- It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help… — James Buchan
- The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by… — James Buchan
- There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells… — James Buchan
- Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. — John Burroughs