“Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.”

“Primitivism has become the vulgar cliche of much modern art and speculation.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

“Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“I felt both a state of envy and contempt. The yacht itself was not vulgar, but I smelt something vulgar about owning it…A few moments later I set off back to my dull daily penal colony of an existence on the far side of the dream, as Adam left the Garden of Eden perhaps…except I knew there were no Gods, and nothing was going to bar my return…”

John Fowles book Daniel Martin

“The vulgarity of the myth of modernity is plainly revealed by the preeminence in its mythology of the factors of quantity; to be modern is always to beat the record in some respect. Distinction, therefore, is opposed to modernity as quality is to quantity.”

Charles Baudouin (1893–1963) French-Swiss psychoanalyst

“All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.”

Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer

“People make their own reality, goddess. We hate and we love for reasons that are known only to us.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her all-pervading virtue, and from whom our Imperial House is descended.”

Sadao Araki (1877–1966) Japanese general

“Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.”

Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator

“There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.”

Ben Hecht (1894–1964) American screenwriter