Isms Quotes
60 quotes by 57 authors
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Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the…
— Ruth Benedict
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I…
— Yogi Berra
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Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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...the myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at all. It is…
— Arnold Beichman
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Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to…
— Thomas Sowell
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The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with mere arguments of…
— Louis Agassiz
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My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism…
— Kurt Cobain
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All religions are equal to me. And all castes and creeds are dear to me. But though I appreciate all `isms,' religions and political parties…
— Meher Baba
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MinÂiÂmalÂism is about creÂatÂing comÂplete harÂmony and not about making simple.
— Naoto Fukasawa
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HeroÂism breaks its heart, and ideÂalÂism its back, on the intranÂsiÂgence of the credÂuÂlous and the mediocre, manipÂuÂlated by the cynÂiÂcal and the corrupt.
— Christopher Hitchens
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Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.
— Ruby Dee
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If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it…
— Adyashanti
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Bin Laden-ism, I don't think, is dead yet. And I think there's a long way to go before we can legitimately say that, you know,…
— Irshad Manji
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A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to do away with the corrupt,…
— Irshad Manji
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The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.
— M.F.K. Fisher
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I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism,
— Shashi Deshpande
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There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.
— George Seaton
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Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms
— Bertrand Russell
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