Isms Quotes - Page 7

• Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Perfect, Capitalism, Superiors

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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 is a virus which spreads through the body politic. As other "isms," it breeds disorder and demagoguery and hate.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Hate, Anger, People

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• All -isms end up in schisms.

  Huston Smith

  Schism, Ends

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• Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.

  Ruby Dee

  Greed, Kind, Classism

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• 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, Principles, Needs

  John Dewey (2007). “Experience And Education”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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