28 ordspråk av Wyndham Lewis

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Wyndham Lewis föddes den 18 november 1882 och dog den 7 mars 1957 - English artist
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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.

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

As a result of the feminist revolution, "feminine" becomes an abusive epithet

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

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Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.

Men were only made into ''men'' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally ''a man'' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

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

The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of ''decency'.' The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.

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

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.

All orthodox opinion -- that is, today, ''revolutionary'' opinion either of the pure or the impure variety -- is anti-man.

No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.

A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

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