Isms

Maya Tiwari Author, Spiritual Teacher

"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."

Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist

"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."

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Activist, Author

"Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior."

Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician

"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"