Quotes About Uniformity

A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

Every system I have in my house or my car, they're all tuned exactly the same.

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

People want you to be ordinary.

Symmetry looks good to us; we want more of it.

Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3

All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.

I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me.

The homes here are almost identical, but not quite, full of people almost identical, but not quite.

They conformed so closely to their culture of nonconformity that there was a uniformity to them, defeating the whole purpose.

These people were caricatures of themselves, he thought. They conformed so closely to their culture of nonconformity that there was a uniformity to them, defeating the whole purpose.

Firsat bulup ona bir insanin polis uniformasini uzerine gecirdigi andan itibaren mevcut duzenin maasli bekcisi oldugunu anlatamazsin.Polisin isi degisimi engellemektir. Gidisattan hosnutsaniz butun polisler iyidir,degilseniz kotudur.

TOMORROW ALWAYS LOOKS THE SAME! THAT'S THE PROBLEM!

El aislamiento también es un elemento importante en la modificación de las especies por medio de la selección natural. En un área limitada o aislada, si no es muy grande, serán generalmente casi uniformes las condiciones orgánicas e inorgánicas de la vida, de modo que la selección natural tenderá a modificar de la misma manera a todos los individuos que varíen en la misma especie.

All suburban housing developments look alike, and besides, every Yankee who ever crossed the Potomac except Ulysses S. Grant got lost as soon as he reached the Virginia side.

other tendency emerges because we rarely like the idea of standards that are inconsistent and uneven from place to place. It seems neater and fairer to provide a consistent standard for everything, whether it's education, the road network or the coffee at

Consistency is all I ask!

The result in all these cities, from Berlin to Stalingrad, was the classic Soviet-era housing solution: mile upon mile of identical gray or brown cement blocks; cheap, poorly-constructed, with no distinguishing architectural features and lacking any aesthetic indulgence (or public facilities).

Rigid dress codes can indeed enforce authority and suppress individuality—an army uniform is intended to do just that. But in their time, uniforms—whether worn by schoolchildren, mailmen, train conductors or street-crossing wardens—bespoke a certain egalitarianism. A child in regulation clothing is under no pressure to compete sartorially with his better-off contemporaries. A

The fears that technology makes us more uniform, more commoditized are incorrect. The more we are personalized, the easier it is for the filters because we become distinct, an actualized distinction they can reckon with.