Age Quote by Karl Kraus

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks.…

— Roman Payne

I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid…

— D. H. Lawrence

“And it was you who created us. The notion of male homosexuality didn’t exist in ancient Greece. Socrates could bugger Alcibiades without being seen…

— Laurent Binet

I think it is funny that we were freer about sexuality in the 4th century B.C. It is a little disconcerting.

— Angelina Jolie

Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special…

— Uta Ranke-Heinemann

“The establishment of the Greek patriarchal world shifted the previous cultural valence from the egalitarian continuity of the Old Religion to the extreme imposition…

— Joan Marler

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell,…

— Barbara Tuchman

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

— Camille Paglia

“Newer religions, among them Christianity, saw the world as a battlefield between good and evil. In such a world, sex itself became dichotomized and…

— Byrne R.S. Fone

“The worst possible sexual education: a taboo imposed by the Catholic church plus romantic literature elevating love to unreal heights plus the obscene language…

— Czeslaw Milosz

“The things sane societies loved, it hated. The things sane societies hated, it loved; the things sane societies tried to do, it tried to…

— Alice Lucy Trent