Surely the one thing needful for a Christian and an Englishman to study is Christian and moral and political philosophy, and then ...we should see our way a little more clearly without falling into Judaism, or Toryism, or Jacobinism, or any other ism whatever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the futur...e will differ according to the decision which we make.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Genius sits in a glass house--but in an unbreakable one--conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches ou...t its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck.... (Then come the lovers of art and contemplate the bleeding work from outside. Then come the photographers. "New art," it says in the newspaper the following day. The learned journals give it a name that ends in "ism.")LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the isms are wasms--except one, the most powerful ism of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is national...ism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Grandpa: Penny, why don't you write a play about ism-mania? Penny: Ism-mania?... Grandpa: Yeah, sure. You know, communism, fascism, voodooism. Everybody's got an ism these days. Penny: It sounds like an itch or something. Grandpa: It's just as catching. When things go a little bad these days, you go out and get yourself an ism and you're in business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »