Camille O'connell Quotes

#1. American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.

Camille Paglia

#2. We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.

Camille Paglia

#3. The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

Camille Paglia

#4. The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, a phrase, less still, only a word of the universe's history.

Camille Flammarion

#5. The idea that emotion can be separated from sex is a Christian illusion, one of the most ingenious but finally unworkable strategies in Christianity's ancient campaign against pagan nature.?

Camille Paglia

#6. I know, darling. Your body speaks to me in ways your mouth would never agree to confessing.

Sai Marie Johnson

#7. Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.

Camille Paglia

#8. Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

Camille Paglia

#9. At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.?

Camille Paglia

#10. I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed, while con-artist kids like Venus, and Camille, and Gemma get believed. But the rescue lady noticed. In the background, just observing, she noticed.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#11. Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees.

Camille Paglia

#12. If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

Camille Paglia

#13. You could give me the past," he said a little sadly. "But Alec is my future.

Cassandra Clare

#14. I could not eat a kangaroo. But many fine Australians do. Those with cookbooks as well as boomerangs Prefer him in tasty kangaroo-meringues.

Ogden Nash

#15. Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.

Camille Paglia

#16. Camille's tear-streaked face flashed for a moment with triumph. "I knew it," she said. "Whatever else you might say, whatever lies you tell, you hate our kind. Don't you?

Cassandra Clare

#17. My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm-as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.

Camille Paglia

#18. Straight men who visit prostitutes are valiantly striving to keep sex free from emotion, duty, family
in other words, from society, religion, and procreative Mother Nature.

Camille Paglia

#19. It is absurd to look for perfection.

Camille Pissarro

#20. The Dionysian is no picnic.

Camille Paglia

#21. The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.

Camille Flammarion

#22. I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.

Camille Paglia

#23. The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them.

Camille Paglia

#24. You see that it is not at all like Rodin ... I share these only with you, don't show them.

Camille Claudel

#25. I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

Camille Claudel

#26. Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

Camille Paglia

#27. Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.

Camille Paglia

#28. Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.

Camille Paglia

#29. In fact, the underlying principle of the baroque is the idea of transformation, of movement, and animals becoming man, and man becoming animals, and mythology. It was a way to inspire pre-Christian character.

Camille Henrot

#30. Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men.

Camille Paglia