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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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....

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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....

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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...

A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool....

A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool....

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by...

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by...

One is always of his age and especially he who least appears so.

One is always of his age and especially he who least appears so.

My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant...

My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant...

Middle age ends and senescence begins, The day your descendants outnumber your friends.

Middle age ends and senescence begins, The day your descendants outnumber your friends.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how...

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how...