Isms Quotes
Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual.
What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.
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.
The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.
You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.
Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.
Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.
There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.
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.
Better passion and death than any more of these'isms'. No more of the old purpose done up in aspic. Better passion and death.
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.
I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.
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
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.
Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.
One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.
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.
I will never surrender the rights of the individual - the complete rights of the individual - to any "ism" whatever.
A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.
We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established.
Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .
Heroism breaks its heart, and idealism its back, on the intransigence of the credulous and the mediocre, manipulated by the cynical and the corrupt.
Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has.
YOU find some one parade all of a sudden some -ism- as new and revolutionary socialism, for example.
So we're all living spirit. It's not about isms and schims or religions. Religions are almost like political institutions, but the heart of it is the spirituality.
Conservatism as an "ism" is always going to be somewhat in tension with a political party.
...ism's are not good. A person should not believe in an ism. He should believe in himself.