"I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting."

-- Camille Paglia

#Fighting Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Media Quotes

“My act is pretty much me reflecting on what I want to talk about and what I think is funny and what has happened to me.”
“Sometimes I was so funny I couldnâ€™t stand myself.”

Source : Moira J. Moore (2006). “Resenting the Hero”, p.75, Penguin
“Its not my job to feed your kids”
“U.S News: You criticize the Miranda ruling, which gives suspects the right to have a lawyer present before police questioning. Shouldn't people, who may be innocent, have such protection? Meese: Suspects who are innocent of a crime should. But the thing is, you don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.”

Source : "Justice under Reagan: Reagan seeks judges with 'traditional approach'". U.S. News & World Report, p. 67, October 14, 1985.
“My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.”
“We learn to face the reality and the pain of our loss, to say good-bye to the dead loved one, to restore ourselves, and to reinvest in life once again.”

Source : Judy Tatelbaum (2009). “The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief”, p.7, Harper Collins
“Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.”
“What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines and hospitals, in which nobody retained the natural power of a human being to help himself or to resist having things done to him. And that is precisely the world that the humanitarian arranges when he gets his way.”

Source : Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.241, Transaction Publishers

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