Quotes About Uniformity

There is a kind of intolerant spirit now abroad which arises out of the growing power of party and other machinery — a spirit which resents individual opinion, which clamours for uniformity and political Test Acts.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

A veces pienso que somos masas uniformes que vamos donde nos lleve otro acumulamiento de masa uniforme, que hacemos lo que hay que hacer porque algo hay que hacer y que amamos molestar al otro por nuestras propias imposibilidades. Impedimentos para hacer algo productivo, algo constructivo...

Science does not permit exceptions.

They did not, however, infect the air as the Sudanese sun dried them up like mummies; all had the hue of gray parchment, and were so much alike that the bodies of the Europeans, Egyptians, and negroes could not be distinguished from each other.

consistent—like plain chocolate bars, the same all the way through. Those quizzes assumed that if people were brave in one situation, they'd be brave in another, but Sugar didn't think this was true. Or maybe it was just her. Maybe this was

Orderliness readily slides to conformity over time.

TV has made everyone so vanilla it's nearly impossible to tell one anchor apart from another.

The great fact of individual difference and variability (that is, inequality) is evident from the long record of human experience: hence, the general recognition of the antihuman nature of a world of coerced uniformity.

The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances.

I have so many clothes, but really, I have the same variations of the same thing, usually black jeans, black jumpers, black double-breasted coats.

I hate variety shows.

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

This that you are proposing, it is irregular and we are not people who are well with irregularness." At

the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.

To me, style is consistency.

From an epistemological perspective, a person is a uniform being who interprets the different parts of her conscious knowledge in a coherent fashion (or at least tries to do this). How do modular theories explain this search for coherence? And how do they explain necessary knowledge, which hardly can be domain-specific (Smith, 1993, p. 5)?

There will be one world, one flag, one anthem, one army, one government and one leader.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

In business, it is better to be consistently bad than inconsistent.

Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.

Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.

There are three entirely consistent characteristics of groupthink: closed-mindedness, pressure toward uniformity, and overestimation of the in-group.31