Capitalism without capital is just an ism.
Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.
Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.
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.
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
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.
Heroism breaks its heart, and idealism its back, on the intransigence of the credulous and the mediocre, manipulated by the cynical and the corrupt.
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.
How can a you hit and think at the same time?
Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.
I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.
YOU find some one parade all of a sudden some -ism- as new and revolutionary socialism, for example.
There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.
It was hard to have a conversation with anyone, there were so many people talking.
Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.
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.
All isms end in fascism.
Ideologies - isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurence by deducing it from a single premise - are a very recent phenomenon. . . Not before Hitler and Stalin were the great political potentialities of the ideologies discovered.
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.
Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.
