Wyndham Lewis quotes

" 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. " # Advertising # Arts and Artists # America

" The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened. " # Equality # Politicians and Politics # Power

" With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state. " # Family # Feminism # Advertising

" As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet. " # Feminism # Women # Revolutions and Revolutionaries

" 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. " # Feminism # Gentlemen # Men and Women

" I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum. " # America # Freedom # Power

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

" 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. " # Ideas # Politicians and Politics # Government

" 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. " # Indolence # Friends and Friendship # Ecstasy

" A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere. " # Intelligence and Intellectuals # War # Revenge