Isms Quotes

60 Isms quotes by 57 unique authors

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
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
Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
...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
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
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
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
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
Minimalism is about creating complete harmony and not about making simple. — Naoto Fukasawa
Heroism breaks its heart, and idealism its back, on the intransigence of the credulous and the mediocre, manipulated by the cynical and the corrupt. — Christopher Hitchens
Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms. — Ruby Dee
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
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
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
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
Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman. — M.F.K. Fisher
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
There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism. — George Seaton
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
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
You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color. — Marc Chagall
As long as we cling to the superstition that we must look to government for money supply, instead of requiring it to look to us,… — E.C. Riegel
Capitalism without capital is just an ism. — Jesse Jackson
Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries . — Elie Wiesel
All isms end in fascism. — Gilbert Adair

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