Isms Quotes - Page 6

• Min­i­mal­ism is about cre­at­ing com­plete har­mony and not about making simple.

  Naoto Fukasawa

  Inspirational, Simple, Creating

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• Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Discovery, Self, Practice

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• The life of the spirit is the expression of Infinity and, as such, knows no artificial limits. True spirituality is not to be mistaken for an exclusive enthusiasm for some fad. It is not concerned with any "ism." When people seek spirituality apart from life, as if it had nothing to do with the material world, their search is futile.

  Meher Baba

  Expression, People, World

  "Discourses, Volume I". Book by Meher Baba, 1967.

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• 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

  Sex, Confused, Two

  "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America". Book by William C. Seitz, p. 103, 1983.

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• People say to me 'you're successful, what are you crying about?'. I'm crying about the people. I'm crying about their daughters. Our daughters, as one family. What good is it. What good is anything that everyone can't have. Every ism. They think we're done with racism. What about elitism, what about separatism, what about classism? That's all.

  Kanye West

  Daughter, Successful, Thinking

  "The Best Quotes From Kanye West's Oxford Lecture That We Don't Completely Understand" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. March 2, 2015.

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• The commercialism of yoga, the commercialism of Ayurveda, the commercialism of guru-ism, is difficult. It's difficult because it confuses, it confuses the general populations as to what this is all about, but yet those of us who are trained within a certain tradition, who trained from the ancestral gene bank, so to speak, it is fine, it's not bothersome at all because we must live.

  Maya Tiwari

  Yoga, Ayurveda, Population

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Fear, Democracy, Needs

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• 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

  Political, Intellectual, Transformation

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• 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

  Believe, Teaching, Thinking

  Source: alexmacpherson.tumblr.com

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• What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism.

  James Brown

  Reality, Today

  Song: Escape-Ism, Pt. 1

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• 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

  World, Kind, Communism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am the ism, my hate's a prism.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Prisms

  Song: Irresponsible Hate Anthem, Album: Antichrist Superstar, 1996

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• 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

  Sex, Moving, Race

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• SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.

  Douglas Coupland

  Hurt, Emotional, Safety

  "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1991.

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• 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

  Racism, Matter, Anarchy

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• 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

  Eye, Sight, Hands

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian "isms" of the left commit the fallacy of the category error. They all want the state to be something it cannot be. They passionately believe the government can love you, that the state can be your God or your church or your tribe or your parent or your village or all of these things at once. Conservatives occasionally make this mistake, libertarians never do, liberals almost always do.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Mistake, Believe, Love You

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• That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?

  L. Todd Rose

  Discovery, Average, Data

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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

  Purpose, Elements, Common

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• 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

  Heart, Political, Spirit

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It's not racism and "this-ism" and "that-ism"; it's our thirst and hunger for money. And that's where all the bodies are buried.

  Ice Cube

  Roots, Racism, Evil

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• 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.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Organization, Community, Movement

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Conservatism as an "ism" is always going to be somewhat in tension with a political party.

  William Kristol

  Party, Political, Tension

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• 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.

  Roger Ebert

  Children, School, Ideas

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• 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

  Courage, Honesty, Fear

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