"So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path……" — Wyndham Lewis
"So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a slogan closely related to gird up your loins, or the guns-butter metaphor."
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45 Quotes by Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis has 45 quotes on this site.
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A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
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No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a…
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When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect:…
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Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a…
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As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
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If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and…
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Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this…
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Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
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Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary…
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Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
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But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that…
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What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?
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More Austerity Quotes
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People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through…
— David Cameron
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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no…
— Chanakya
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The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for…
— George Monbiot
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If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next…
— Len McCluskey
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HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss…
— Ambrose Bierce
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In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy.…
— Nigel Farage
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The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.
— Unknown Author
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I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities.…
— Christopher Hitchens
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We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.
— Bill Gross
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On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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