Camille Paglia
American academic and social critic
Lived from: 1947 -
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United States
Born: 2 april 1947
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Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)― Camille Paglia -
Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994)― Camille Paglia -
Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)― Camille Paglia -
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 western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.
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Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. Yet feminism, which has waged a crusade for rape to be taken more seriously, has put young women in danger by hiding the truth about sex from them.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)― Camille Paglia -
Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)― Camille Paglia -
Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)― Camille Paglia -
Sade has barely made a dent on American academic consciousness. It is his violence far more than his sex which is so hard for liberals to accept. For Sade, sex is violence. Violence is the authentic spirit of mother nature.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)― Camille Paglia -
Sedgwick has managed to convert pedestrian critical skills and little discernible knowledge in history, philosophy, psychology, art or even pre-modern literature into a lucrative academic career.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)― Camille Paglia -
Sexual freedom, sexual liberation. A modern delusion. We are hierarchical animals. Sweep one hierarchy away, and another will take its place, perhaps less palatable than the first.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)― Camille Paglia -
Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)― Camille Paglia -
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 of male-bashing feminism.
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Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.
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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
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The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.
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