Quotes About Uniformity

She positions herself on a stool in front of a giant washing machine, watching her garments twirl in flashing patterns of red and white on a sea of black. It subdues her, that clothes can be washed in Boston or Rome and look the same for it, that she can step on an airplane and be anywhere else in the civilized world within a day and wear the same clothes and be the same person. That the small realities stay knitted together!

Semper eadem [Ever the same].

I recall how upset Josie was. Ready to gouge and fight that-there time over at Bethel Church.' 'A man's that got it in head to own a place… got get-up in his hide… Beyond that under their shirts they're all just alike. In the dark you couldn't know one from the next.

Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.

Man's reason was set free, but he used that freedom to try to dominate everything that now seemed separate from himself and human reason, the so-called Other. Science, law, government, even language itself—all became instruments by which Western man reduced diversity to sameness, spontaneity to uniformity, and difference (defined as the Other) to multiform objects for control, like butterflies in a killing-jar.

The same bourgeois magic everywhere the mail train sets you down.

Much of the apparent uniformity of Nature is a uniformity of averages. Our gross senses only take cognizance of the average effect of vast numbers of individual particles and processes; and the regularity of the average might well be compatible with a great degree of lawlessness of the individual. I do not think it is possible to dismiss statistical laws (such as the second law of thermodynamics) as merely mathematical adaptations of the other classes of law to certain practical problems.

We want a system that creates the same exact sandwich, very rapidly and very consistently, every single time.

I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.

Maybe there really only was one singular white man staring down at the world from his official boots and his official vehicle and his official sunglasses hanging high over his official smirk.

On school uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's not a new idea, either. I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand because the narration was in German.

I like all my jackets to be on wooden coat hangers, all facing the same direction.

Pepys was such a meticulous person that he had little wooden blocks to make all the books on his shelves the same height.

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

Conformity spawns conformity.

A new car in every driveway. Every house had a little lawn out front, and every blade of grass on each lawn was trimmed down to the exact same height. Some of the ladies had flower beds and even the flowers all looked alike, something small and pink. There wasn't a person out on the streets, which made sense seeing as there were no sidewalks—the lawns came all the way out to the road. It gave me the creeps. Each

With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same.

Consistency isn't behaving the same way all the time.

By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.

Machines are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

One of the consequences of printing is that it tends to standardize language

The whole system is designed for uniformity and ease—under worst-case-scenario circumstances

Equals should be treated equally and unequals unequally.

Une uniformité qui imite les mouvements des horloges et non pas ceux des constellations, une variété qui exclut toute règle et par suite toute prévision, cela fait un temps inhabitable à l'homme, irrespirable.