Quotes About Uniformity

Nothing is so unequal as equality.

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

The hallmark of excellence, the test of greatness, is consistency.

One king, one law, one faith.

Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used. Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident of human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

Most children abhor difference. They want to look, talk, dress, and act exactly like all of the others. If the style of dress is an absurdity, it is pain and sorrow to a child not to wear that absurdity. If necklaces of pork chops were accepted, it would be a sad child who could not wear pork chops. And this slavishness to the group normally extends into every game, every practice, social or otherwise. It is a protective coloration children utilize for their safety.

Dignitaries look alike, always dressed in mourning.

Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

My life has become a boring pop song and everyone is singing along.

social, and even individual differences are merged when seen from a distance in the uniformity of an epoch.

Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.

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

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Society may be imagined so uniform that one education shall be suitable for all its members; we have not a society of that kind, nor has any European country.

Every uniform corrupts one's character.

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

Like pigeons.' 'What's so mysterious about pigeons?' 'They're always the same size. You never see baby pigeons or old-age pigeons.

The boys wore jeans, or tracksuits with big ticks on them as if their clothing had been marked by a teacher who valued, above all else, conformity.

Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.

I do not like inconsistent! Why must it be so?

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.