Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.
What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new "ism," but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.
Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.
I will never surrender the rights of the individual - the complete rights of the individual - to any "ism" whatever.
Conservatism as an "ism" is always going to be somewhat in tension with a political party.
I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.
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.
YOU find some one parade all of a sudden some -ism- as new and revolutionary socialism, for example.
Capitalism without capital is just an ism.
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.
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.
I am the ism, my hate's a prism.
