Quotes About Uniformity

It's just six of one and half a dozen of the other.

I strive for nothing if not consistency

You're late, Kell", Dockson said, still not looking up from his ledgers. "I strive for nothing if not consistency" - Kelsier

Rich people, she decided, loved to stick with a theme.

all men, just of different cultures, wearing different uniforms, having different-coloured skins perhaps, but simply men nevertheless

Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty.

They stopped in front of a two-storey brick building quintessentially Swedish, Linda thought. Wherever you go in this country the houses all look the same. The central square in Vasteras could be replaced withthe one in Orebro, this Skurup apartment building could as easily be in Sollentuna.

The only law which is really lived up to whole-heartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

Few changes are allowed in Palm Beach, making it an anachronistic little village where everything looks almost the same as it did years and years ago.

Let's make it simple: Government control means uniformity, regulation, fees, inspection, and yes, compliance.

I don't like being treated differently.

New Yorkers suffered from what a modern psychologist would label a poor self-image. New Yorkers who cared about such matters, and who had visited such European cities as London, Paris and Rome, were the first to admit that New York was becoming a not very pretty city and disparaged (according to a contemporary account) "this cramped horizontal gridiron of a town without … porticoes, fountains or perspectives, hide-bound in its deadly uniformity of mean ugliness.

Sparring gowns, battle gowns, executioner's gowns—it didn't matter. They were all dull dull dull!

We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.

The smell of the carpet in a hotel room is the same everywhere.

When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have the same tastes in clothing, flatter a woman with the same metaphor) and a tedious monotony among events (they are all just an endless repetition of the same one); but in her adolescence she welcomes these coincidences as miraculous and she is avid to decipher their meanings.

She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison.

Of course, uniformity rules everywhere. But in this park it has a wider choice of uniforms. So you can hold on to the illusion of your own individuality.

behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison.

All chambers are alike to the doctor;

Mediocrity is the best camouflage known to man.

I learned that the greatest camouflage of all is consistency. If you do something often enough and at the same time in the same way, you become invisible.

The purpose of those who argue for cultural diversity is to impose ideological uniformity.

With human inspectors, it's difficult to get even the same person to make consistent judgments.