"Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother."

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Camille Paglia

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Government Quotes

“How can we turn our back on an endeavor which increases our children's cultural intelligence, heightens individual sensitivity and deepens our collective sense of humanity? I suggest to you that we cannot.”
“From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.”
“Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?”

Source : On being approached by the secretary of the Athenaeum, which he had been in the habit of using as a convenience on the way to his office; attributed
“Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.”
“My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.”
“No chemical compound in the atmosphere has a worse reputation than CO2, thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by advocates of government control and energy production. The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science.”
“But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.”
“Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.”

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