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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“Major peaks of western culture have been accompanied by a high incidence of male homosexuality— in classical Athens and Renaissance Florence and London. Male concentration and projection are self-enhancing, leading to supreme achievements of Apollonian”
— Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
Tagged: Homosexuality, Male Aesthetics
“Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Every idea in poetry is grounded in emotion. Every word is a palpation of the body. The multiplicity of interpretation surrounding a poem mirrors the stormy uncontrollability of emotion, where nature works her will.”
— Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
Tagged: Poetry
“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.”
— Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
Tagged: Don’t Let It All Through, Repression, What Stops Us From Going Crazy
“Woman’s body is a labyrinth in which man is lost.”
— Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
Tagged: female, sexuality, Sex
“When the prestige of state and religion is low, men are free, but they find freedom intolerable and seek new ways to enslave themselves, through drugs or depression.”
— Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
Tagged: Freedom, Politcs, Infrastructure of Control, No Freedom
“Nature has a master agenda we can only dimly know.”
— Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
Tagged: Nature, What Are We?, Gaia, Quote of the Moment
“We held a conversation where we were trying to address also those areas where we disagree, but we tried to bring people together and tried to find a compromise that is good for both sides.”
— Angela Merkel, In first Trump-Merkel meeting, awkward body language and a quip
Tagged: Compromise
“I think the reality is you can see that countries in the world that isolate themselves, it’s not good for their people.”
— Tim Cook, Apple CEO Tim Cook Defends Globalization in China Speech
Tagged: Globalization, Isolationism, apple china production, apple production, chinese manufacturing, Globalization, tim cook, tim cook in china, tom cook speech, Apple, AAPL, tim cook, corporate, industrial news, political, general news, Society, Community, privacy issues, information security, Global, world issues, Politics, International Relations, domestic politics, computers, consumer electronics, Technology
“The body, for good or ill, has become a primary marker of identity in this transient society where the extended family and old community ties have broken down. Style is cyclic: all standards will eventually change. But that may not be soon enough for young people (increasingly male as well as female) barraged by images of ‘better’ bodies than the ones they have been dealt. By encouraging historical exploration, we can reduce pressure and anxiety. There are companions and competitors beyond number in the great image book of the past.”
— Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
Tagged: Body Image, Bodies, Perception of Self
“The massive power of commercial media can only be countered by alternative images from world art and culture.”
— Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
Tagged: Art, Art and Commerce, Media, Imagery