Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia
Camille Anna Pagliais an American academic and social critic. Paglia has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1984. The New York Times has described her as "first and foremost an educator". Paglia is known for her critical views of many aspects of modern culture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth2 April 1947
CountryUnited States of America
years damage-is-done feckless
The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.
real fate years
Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.
years criticism jargon
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
past doors dizzy
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
dance kings stars
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 never going to achieve anything. You have to want to be king of the heap.
art giving soul
A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.
children father boys
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 all times.
sex women cities
We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.
art knowing humanity
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 on any one point is a distortion.
beautiful block equality
The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.
mother jesus mean
Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.
art philosophy men
All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.
men lust survival
Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.
mother father tyrants
Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.