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Tim Wise
“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

John Dewey
“For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an 鈥榠sm becomes so involved in reaction against other 鈥榠sms 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

Savitri Devi
“To us, the high-resounding 鈥渋sms鈥� to which our contemporaries ask; us to give our allegiance, now, in 1948, are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success; if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.”
Savitri Devi

Robert E.  Davis
“To competently perform rectifying security service, two critical incident response elements are necessary: information and organization.”
Robert E. Davis

“...ism's are not good. A person should not believe in an ism. He should believe in himself.”
Ferris Beuller

Jean Baudrillard
“Already God existed only in the desperate attempt to prove his existence. It is the same today with human beings, whose existence we attempt desperately to verify by the very means that make it improbable.

Feminism, populism, humanism: all words with the suffix '-ism' are the caricature of their root. Of women, of the people, of the human. Including terrorism: the caricature of terror?”
Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004

William Caxton
“He that hath liberty ought to kepe it wel, for nothyng is better than liberty.”
William Caxton

“To hell with hate and isms of life. God, family and good life (Klassik Trinity) wins.”
DON SANTO

Graham Greene
“You know, if you live in a place for long you cease to write about it.'

'Of course I always like to know what the man on the spot has to say,' he replied guardedly.

'And then check it with York?'

'Yes.”
Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“We've rigged the entire system of living in harmony with nature against ourselves. We raise our children & inculcate various "isms" into them. They in turn perpetuate it by passing the same (if not more) onto their's. We raise slaves, not independent thinkers.”
Mamur Mustapha

Leland Lewis
“The Eternal Tao is prior to, and infinitely beyond all 'isms”
Leland Lewis, Random Molecular Mirroring

“Racism, sexism, heightism, ageism... the only do-goodism is baptism!”
George T. Taylor

Tage Danielsson
“Alla 鈥搃smer d盲r vi stannat
盲r sekunda, inte st枚rst.
Freden m氓ste komma f枚rst.
G枚r den inte det, min v盲n,
kommer inget efter den.”
Tage Danielsson

Julieanne O'Connor
“Anything ending in "ism" should be cause for questioning or deep consideration depending on it's context. -Julieanne-ism”
Julieanne O'Connor

Aneesh Abraham
“What is the benefit of his erudition if the job at hand is that of a vandal and a villain?”
Aneesh Abraham

“Anamodernism insists on a polyvalent synthesis of -isms, more precisely in their introduction into a system of values, which as elements can be used and revalidated.”
Vladan Kuzmanovic