The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The youn...ger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Injustice, cruelty, restraint of conscience, oppression, falsity, dishonour, deceit, violation of law and equity?--But look how th...ey have cleaned up the cities and what wonderful roads they have built!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs... of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not until the advent of Impressionism does the repudiation of principles set in which opened the way for the burlesque parade of t...he fashionable and publicity-crazed modernities of our century.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table a...nd wireless within reach. For the evening there is the film, cards, or a meeting to complete a day spent in the office or factory where nothing that is essential has been learnt. With slight variation this picture of a low cultural average holds good over the entire range from factory-hand of clerk to manager or director. Only the personal will to culture, in whatever field and however pursued raises modern man above this level.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Regna regnis lupi, The State is a wolf unto the State. It is not a pessimistic lamentation like the old homo homini lupus [Man is ...a wolf to Man], but a positive creed and political ideal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have ...been anticipated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nelson's famous signal before the Battle of Trafalgar was not: "England expects that every man will be a hero." It said: "England ...expects that every man will do his duty." In 1805 that was enough. It should still be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »