Top 70 Quotes About Isms
#1. 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.
Eduardo Galeano
#2. Sects and 'isms' have branched out in one direction and another, but still Jesus from the invisible worlds enfolds in his love all the Sons of Seth who will call upon his name by faith, and he will eventually unite the scattered churches in the Kingdom of Christ.
Max Heindel
#3. With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.
Jack Kemp
#4. You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.
Marc Chagall
#5. Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#6. There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.
George Seaton
#7. 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
#9. I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned, raised and developed by America; I am America. And as it changes, my thoughts also change. Because no matter what I believe, what the powers-that-be believe will affect me.
Erykah Badu
#10. Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.
Ruby Dee
#11. We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established ...
Eleanor Roosevelt
#12. Better passion and death than any more of these'isms'. No more of the old purpose done up in aspic. Better passion and death.
Jennifer Lawrence
#13. 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.
Hannah Arendt
#14. 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
Bertrand Russell
#15. Sin is not the adult bookstore on the corner. It is the hard heart, the lack of generosity, and all the isms, racism and sexism and so forth. But is there a crack where a ribbon of light might get in, might sneak past all the roadblocks and piles of stones, mental and emotional and cultural? We
Anne Lamott
#16. Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .
Elie Wiesel
#18. 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
#19. There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#20. 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.
Surya Das
#21. I'll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I have repented!
Jose Mujica
#24. Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.
Octavia E. Butler
#25. 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.
Jim Shaw
#26. The resulting inability or even desire to reason and think through an idea logically is demonstrated by one-liners such as "I'm not into 'isms.
Ravi Zacharias
#27. My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?'
Peyton Manning
#28. A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults or isms. They are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. They are lenses of the unlimited reproduction.
Robert Smithson
#29. Jonny Lang has the power to move the music into the next millennium by reaching the ears of a new generation. The great musicians have the power to break all of the 'isms'-race, age, sex, et cetera. Jonny Lang is one of those musicians.
Luther Allison
#30. 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.
Christine Pelosi
#31. 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.
Chrissie Hynde
#32. There has been 32 isms since the advent of cubism, yet after all there are essentially the same two old strings, the Romantic and the Classical. We've just be confused by the storm. Science and psychology have played a great part to say nothing of sex.
Mark Tobey
#33. Jack Taylor was a private investigator in Galway, which seemed like madness. I used lots of Galway-isms, which seemed like madness, too.
Ken Bruen
#34. The war cured me of all the "isms", he said. 'Nazism, communism, socialism, patriotism, nationalism, capitalism. I have seen them all. The problem is human nature. People. Shit always floats to the top.
Magda Szubanski
#35. My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.
Kurt Cobain
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.
Benjamin Todd Jealous
#39. I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.
Jerry Saltz
#41. God save you, my brethren, with all your -isms and schisms! I am a citizen of the world, and a man of Weimer. I have established myself by culture in this choice society; and if anyone knows a better place, let him go to it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#42. Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.
Malcolm X
#43. 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.
Anthony Braxton
#44. Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.
Paul Krassner
#45. 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.
Irshad Manji
#46. I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.
Yogi Berra
#47. To competently perform rectifying security service, two critical incident response elements are necessary: information and organization.
Robert E. Davis
#48. I didn't really say everything I said.
Yogi Berra
#49. 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
#51. 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,
Shashi Deshpande
#52. 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.
Irshad Manji
#54. Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.
Yogi Berra
#56. Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.
John Buchan
#57. YOU find some one parade all of a sudden some -ism- as new and revolutionary socialism, for example.
Sathya Sai Baba
#58. The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.
In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.
Tim Wise
#59. How can a you hit and think at the same time?
Yogi Berra
#60. 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.
Thomas Keating
#61. It was hard to have a conversation with anyone, there were so many people talking.
Yogi Berra
#62. If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Yogi Berra
#63. What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism.
James Brown
#65. I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.
David Ogilvy
#66. The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under the ism transformations: socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other ism or ology.
Serge Lang
#67. 80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.
Yogi Berra
#68. 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
#69. 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.
Frank Capra
