Compromise Quote by Wyndham Lewis

Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor, and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Well, "disgusting" doesn't refer to the books but to the subjective reaction of the person making the complaint. I don't think that anything is…

— William S. Burroughs

...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance…

— Robert Wright

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

— Bruce Lee

All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing; and in no instance is this more true than in that…

— James Madison

A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

— Hannah More

No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is…

— Egon Schiele

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister…

— Bertrand Russell

You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful…

— George Bernard Shaw

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon…

— Robertson Davies

“Philosophical theories can in this way become a destructive venture, confusing matters with false choices and sterile power schemes the cruel are only too…

— Matthew Scully