Quotes About Uniformity

When he looked up, Silvia was standing in front of him. Her arms were folded and she gazed vacantly past him. A bright yellow pencil was behind her ear. Her brown hair was tied back in a hard bun. At the corner others were sitting, other Silvias, dishes in front of them, half dozing or eating, some of them reading. Each the same as the next, except for their clothing.

I've had enough of it already. Shining armour. Dawn parades. Forced marches. Midnight inspections. Penalties for sloppy salutes, uncombed crests, talking after lights out. The man's mad.

Every single one of the letters having been identical.

There may be a lot of kids in the world, but the stupid ones are all stupid in the same way.

Almost everything looks the same at art fairs - very hygienic, very white, lots of right angles.

We want laws to be applied predictably.

El principal problema es que la mayoría de los comentaristas están acostumbrados a considerar a las escuelas espirituales como "sistemas", más o menos similares, y que dependen del dogma y el ritual: en especial de la repetición y la aplicación de presiones continuas y uniformes sobre sus seguidores. El camino sufi, excepto en formas degeneradas que no deben clasificarse como súficas, difiere totalmente de eso.

Those times have given way to a new age that seeks to reduce everything to uniformity in the realm of matter while it tends to shatter all universality in the realm of the spirit in deference to an anarchic individualism.

One was always met by a gust of greyness and narrow circumstances.

Donuk ve yavan oldu?u halde, ayn? olan? yeniden üretmeye s?rt?n? dayam?? bir ülkeden daha ümit k?r?c? ne vard?r?

The historian Philippe Aries puts it like this: "Family feelings, feelings of class, and perhaps in some cases of race are manifestations of the same intolerance of diversity, of the same need for uniformity.

Our nation is being kept in a state of fear. It is drilled into uniformity. If this goes on much longer it will destroy Germany's soul. A man needs a little piece of personal life . . . some happiness and security .. . without this he becomes an animal, a beast of burden, driven here and there at his masters whim . . . and the masters, Franz!" added Herr Octzen, "The masters, what are they? Small men scrambling for power and preferment and caring little who is trampled underfoot.

If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

Science can be--and is--used by good men, but in its present sense it can scarcely be said to create them. Science, of course, in discovery represents the individual, but in the moment of triumph, science creates uniformity through which the mind of the individual once more flees away.... Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law, into some realm which is that of mind alone.

You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else.

From a certain height, everyone looks the same - men, women, villains, kings - as if rank and fortune were simply an accident of perspective.

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink

Uniformity is the rigorous law of nature; therefore, what happened once can happen always.

The secret of being boring is to say everything.

Law should be like death, which spares no one.

Dead people are all on the same level.

Many churches offer more entertainment than worship, more uniformity than diversity, more exclusivity than outreach, more law than grace.

I don't think much of these eccentrics. Some people turn them into familiar acquaintances, even friends. Once a year they interest me, when I meet them, because their character stands in contrast to others and they break that fastidious uniformity which our education, our social conventions, and our habitual proprieties have introduced.