Quotes About Uniformity

The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.

What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There are a lot of great individuals, but it can become a very blank and bleak picture.

I admire my fellow judge Paul Hollywood enormously, though we often argue. He believes presentation and uniformity are paramount; I'm more interested in taste. I don't mind if one bun is smaller than the others, or if there's a little pastry cracking, though I don't want a soggy bottom.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Proponents of nationwide injunctions argue that they are necessary to ensure that the law is uniform throughout the country. But the federal judiciary wasn't made to produce instant legal uniformity.

The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

I'm not Amish, but I grew up in that same area of Pennsylvania and became very attracted to the inherent strictness and uniformity of that community.

It is not white nationalism to believe that growing ideological uniformity in the commanding heights of culture makes American politics more polarized.

The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.

Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

All the airports kind of feel and look the same now. Some are more beautiful, some are less beautiful, but for the most part you're going to find a Starbucks in every airport. You're going to get your coffee and the 'USA Today' or 'New York Times' in every airport.

I've always kept it very simple. I'm a big believer that basics stay the same for all the formats.

Is uniformity [of opinion] attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over.

Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.

Numbers don't lie. I think it's pretty cut and dry what consistency is.

La società moderna è ben lontana dal costituire un esempio: molte delle sue manifestazioni - la pubblicità, il culto del denaro, le disuguaglianze abissali, l'egoismo feroce, l'uniformità dei gusti, delle opinioni, delle coscienze - sono un concentrato di orrori e idiozie.

Lo que mueve a los mundos es la interacción de las diferencias, sus atracciones y rechazos. La vida es pluralidad. La muerte es uniformidad. Al reprimir diferencias y peculiaridades, al eliminar diferentes culturas y civilizaciones el progreso debilita la vida y fortalece la muerte, nos empobrece y mutila. Cada visión del mundo que se extingue, cada cultura que desaparece, disminuye la posibilidad de vida.

You also have to attract the notice of superior officers. You have to be liked. You have to fit in with the system. You have to look like what the officers above you think that officers should look like. You have to think in ways that they are comfortable with.

If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame. 2. 'If they be led by virtue, and uniformity sought to be given them by the rules of propriety, they will have the sense of shame, and moreover will become good.

Monotony reveals our limitations.

The world had become pretty generally Ceceliafied.

If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism to which the respectability of society will give its thorough approval.