Isms Quotes - Page 4

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.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

Freedom Of Speech, Democracy, Want

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I will never surrender the rights of the individual - the complete rights of the individual - to any "ism" whatever.

Murray Bookchin

Rights, Surrender, Individual

Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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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 what people do if you leave them alone.

Arnold Beichman

Reality, People, Stronger

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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, Obsessed, Form

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YOU find some one parade all of a sudden some -ism- as new and revolutionary socialism, for example.

Sathya Sai Baba

Example, Revolutionary, Socialism

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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.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Mean, Thinking, Expression

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[I] educate people to be kinder to each other, and to other life-forms. There has been racism, sexism and now there is 'species-ism.' People think that they are better than other creatures.

Alicia Silverstone

Thinking, Racism, People

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

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Kind, Prams, Ifs

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Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.

Clare Boothe Luce

War, Law, Peaceful

Clare Boothe Luce (1941). “European spring”

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

Tibor Kalman

Use, Contrary

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Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, “Identity Thief,” and Rex Reed, who’s a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don’t know what the right “ism” for it is, but I think that there’s a level of that that’s happening that’s certainly not okay.

Josh Gad

Bullying, Thinking, Identity

"The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 13, 2013.

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Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'

W. W. Rouse Ball

Science, Names, Age

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I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

Michael Arad

Artist, Appreciate, Design

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I think the biggest lesson that I take from 'Avatar' on any set that I go to is just work ethic. Working with Jim Cameron, you're used to working very, very long days and you're very meticulous about details. He's very, very picky about little details, little character-isms and things.

Laz Alonso

Character, Thinking, Long

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I know the difference between venture capital[ism] and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism is a good thing, comes in, gives that gap funding to help these companies get off and get started creating jobs, and work. But Mitt Romney and Bain Capital were involved with what I call vulture capitalism. And they walked into Gaffney and took over that photo album company for no other reason than to basically pick the bones clean. And those people lost their jobs.

Rick Perry

Jobs, Differences, Creating

"Perry dismisses Mitt and N.H." by Jake Sherman, www.politico.com. January 10, 2012.

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Capitalism without capital is just an ism.

Jesse Jackson

Justice, Capitalism

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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, just so long must we remain the subjects of government and it is vain to follow this or that policy or party or ism in the hope of salvation. We can control government and our own destiny only through our money power and until we exert that power it is useless for us to debate the pros and cons of political programs.

E.C. Riegel

Party, Destiny, Government

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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

Hero, Heart, Als

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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 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, Science, Office

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When doctrines divide and "isms" turn human against human, without speech, without silence, let us demonstrate. Let these demonstrations manifest everywhere. Not what we think or say but what we do shall avail - on with the dance.

Samuel L. Lewis

Dance, Thinking, Silence

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There are just as many bitches out there as bastards. Equal opportunity asshole-ism.

Kelley Armstrong

Opportunity, Equal, Equal Opportunity

Kelley Armstrong (2010). “Waking The Witch: Number 11 in series”, p.197, Hachette UK

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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

Ends, Middle, Uncomfortable

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You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes.

Malcolm X

Soul, Colonialism, Dollars

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It's a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person's grievances are. You don't want to end up creating new grievances where there were none to begin with. Another Daddy-ism, if you hadn't already guessed.

Gabrielle Zevin

Creating, Daddy, Weakness

Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.284, Macmillan

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The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.

Thomas Hardy

Children, Mean, Thinking

Jude the Obscure pt. 5, ch. 3 (1896)

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