Fifty million isms must be wrong. On the face of it, some of them must be! Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, Naziism, Fascism, Collectivism, Nationalism, Internationalism, Totalitarianism — the words are not all in the dictionary....
but they are in every newspaper that we pick up. Ideologies! Words! Faiths! Creeds!
For the sake of these words, and what they represent, bombs fall... flags are pulled down. New ones go up. Thrones totter, parliaments dissolve, leaders emerge. Songs and slogans... Oh, say can you see? Oh, say, does the Star-Spangled Banner yet wave? Yes, but it's getting increasingly hard to see. It is lost in a fog of isms :-(
Dorothy Thompson, 1938
j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Fifty million isms must be wrong. On the face of it, some of them must be! Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, Naziism, Fascism, Collectivism, Nationalism, Internationalism, Totalitarianism — the words are not all in the dictionary....
but they are in every newspaper that we pick up. Ideologies! Words! Faiths! Creeds!
For the sake of these words, and what they represent, bombs fall... flags are pulled down. New ones go up. Thrones totter, parliaments dissolve, leaders emerge. Songs and slogans... Oh, say can you see? Oh, say, does the Star-Spangled Banner yet wave? Yes, but it's getting increasingly hard to see. It is lost in a fog of isms :-(
Dorothy Thompson, 1938
j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina