Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

Quote by Wyndham Lewis

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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....

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...

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...

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as...

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as...

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...

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...

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.