#pa

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#awash #bodybuilding #chemistry #defying #mathematics

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? ↗

— Camille Paglia

#complacent #conditions #elite #glories #greedy

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#emancipation #enabled #ended #hereditary #living

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#part #pursuit #seduction #sexuality #sizzle

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#america #american #american life #between #culture

Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#audience #catchy #concerts #depth #effects

The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#damage #done #feckless #george #george w

I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#democrat #determined #era #franklin #i

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#body #everybody #her #his #however

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

#astute #audacious #change #committed #courageous