Isms famous quotes

I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms,' all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.
-- Anthony Braxton

#Community #Isms #Able

Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.
-- Ashok K. Banker

#Isms #Ends #Middle

Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#Perfect #Isms #Not Perfect

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.
-- George Seaton

#Floating #Isms #World

All isms end in fascism.
-- Gilbert Adair

#Isms #Politics #Ends

All -isms end up in schisms.
-- Huston Smith

#Isms #Schism #Ends

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, it is no longer in our midst.
-- Irshad Manji

#Thinking #Long #Isms

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, autocratic regimes in their countries.
-- Irshad Manji

#Country #Alternatives #Isms

Capitalism without capital is just an ism.
-- Jesse Jackson

#Justice #Isms #Capitalism

For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.
-- John Dewey

#Thinking #Isms #Movement

There are just as many ***** out there as bastards. Equal opportunity asshole-ism.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Opportunity #Isms #Equal

The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with mere arguments of possibilities or even probabilities, without a basis of fact, it departs from the true scientific method and injures science, as most of the devotees of the new ism have already done.
-- Louis Agassiz

#Nature #Office #Isms

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.
-- M. F. K. Fisher

#Isms #Painting #Whim

Min­i­mal­ism is about cre­at­ing com­plete har­mony and not about making simple.
-- Naoto Fukasawa

#Simple #Isms

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.
-- Paul Krassner

#Racism #Isms #Sexism

My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?'
-- Peyton Manning

#School #Mean #Isms

I don't follow any kind of 'isms.' If there is one, it will be Pram-ism.
-- Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#Isms #Kind #Prams

Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.
-- Ruby Dee

#Greed #Isms #Kind

The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under the ism transformations: socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other ism or ology.
-- Serge Lang

#Political #Intellectual #Isms

I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.
-- Tibor Kalman

#Use #Isms

But what we know, we who are either observers of a business we once were in and loved, or are people within it now, our business as a whole, when it is not obsessed with the business of business, is eaten up with a form of cultural conservatism which is truly amazing. Indeed, more often than not it is eaten up with pure reactionary-ism.
-- Hodding Carter III

#People #Isms #Obsessed

I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.
-- Jim Shaw

#Isms #Way #Painting

The commercialism of yoga, the commercialism of Ayurveda, the commercialism of guru-ism, is difficult. It's difficult because it confuses, it confuses the general populations as to what this is all about, but yet those of us who are trained within a certain tradition, who trained from the ancestral gene bank, so to speak, it is fine, it's not bothersome at all because we must live.
-- Maya Tiwari

#Yoga #Ayurveda #Isms

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

#Writing #Feminist #Isms