Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.
Source: The Art of Being Ruled, ch. 8, The Family and Feminism (1926).
-- Wyndham Lewis, (Nov 18 1882-1957), English author, painter; He founded the abstract Vorticist movement, which, in painting and literature before WW I, sought to relate art to the industrial process.