Camille Paglia Quotes

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

… the process of social change was not merely a matter of new inventions pressing on old institutions: it was a matter of new classes displacing old.

But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.

A revolution in itself is not a blessing.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

The more revolutions occur, the less things change.

Revolution is always delightful in the preliminary stages. So long as it's a question of getting rid of the people at the top.

Revolutions breeds its own excesses.

The generation which commences a revolution can rarely complete it

In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to (by both) the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.

In every revolution on Earth, consciousness came first.

The Arab world’s wave of change was a century in the making, Why expect its effects to become clear in the space of months

History is a relay of revolutions

Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.