Camille Paglia Quotes

There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.

How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?

I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.

It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about.

People love to hate other people.

In England, people don't like me.

In time of political difficulty or economic difficulty the tendency is to lash our at some group.

The Spanish do not like me, but I fully detest them also.

War always begins with the dehumanizing of the enemy through rhetoric

The moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants, and the fantasy of idiots.

Hate, not hat, is in the ring.

Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.

People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.

I used to be hated by people.

Why do human beings find it so hard to live and let live? Countries are messing with each other. Religions are messing with each other. Castes are messing with each other; people mess with each other.

I think racism is a terrible thing. I think we should all learn to hate each other on a individual basis.