The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Quote by Wyndham Lewis

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The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such...

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such...

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they...

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they...

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a...

I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a...

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a bastard...

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a bastard...

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such...

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such...

Revolution' today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

Revolution' today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use....

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use....

Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth....

Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth....

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a...

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a...

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would...

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would...

Men were only made into men with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male...

Men were only made into men with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male...

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or...

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or...

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and...

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and...

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that...

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that...

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to...

Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to...

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to...

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to...