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Quotes About Uniformity

Nate seemed to live in a world where unpredictable things didn't happen.
~ Jennifer McMahon
Anarchism does not stand for military drill and uniformity; it does, however, stand for the spirit of revolt, in whatever form, against everything that hinders human growth. All Anarchists agree in that, as they also agree in their opposition to the political machinery as a means of bringing about the great social change.
~ Emma Goldman
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 passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others.12 No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority. They
~ Eric Hoffer
A brand offers a feeling of reassurance when its products are always and everywhere the same.
~ Eric Schlosser
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
~ Erich Fromm
They may not realize it, but consistently thinking of the external appearance as both supremely important and also as an object whose uniqueness and differences are not valued or appreciated and must therefore be butchered and uniformized has got to wear the spirit down on some deep level.
~ Amanda Filipacchi
The great curse of theology and ecclesiasticisim has always been their tendency to sacrifice large interests to small: Charity to Creed, Unity to Uniformity, Fact to Tradition, Ethics to Dogma.
~ Andrew Dickson White
Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
~ Umberto Eco
To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.
~ Annette Funicello
Education prepares to be one piece of a machine.
~ Sugata Mitra
When I started writing the music, I wanted everything to be consistent from the way I dressed to the way I presented myself online. I wanted everything to match what I was doing on stage.
~ Leon Bridges
I like consistency in defenders.
~ Jan Vertonghen
But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.
~ Ron D. Burton
Just in terms of the demeanor and the approach and just making sure that I'm consistent in the way I do things - that is the biggest thing for me.
~ Ryan Fitzpatrick
Consistency is always the best teacher.
~ Stephon Marbury
and it was said that the soldiers "all had the same expression because they had no expression at all.
~ Rick Atkinson
a consensus has emerged that the vast majority of ritual ceremonies are concerned primarily with healing in a general sense. They exert influence on physical well-being, heighten identity, enhance interpersonal cohesion, reintegrate community into the environment, and mitigate perceived conflicts with supernatural powers. In spite of the cultural diversity of therapeutic institutions and practices, the fundamental healing principles show a good deal of cross-cultural uniformity.
~ Rick Strassman
Ukažte mi nedbale krojovaný oddíl a já "vypátrám", že ani jeho v?dce nemá kroj v po?ádku. Myslete na to, až se budete do kroje oblékat! Dáváte svým chlapc?m p?íklad a pokud budete mít kroj p?kn? upravený, od- razí se to i na vašich skautech.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
A pattern that is all one color is no pattern.
~ Robert Jordan
pattern that is all one color is no pattern.
~ Robert Jordan
What is perceptible to one's mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of it, the pre-formations passed down by generation after generation, the ready-made language not only of the tongue but also of the sensations and the feelings.
~ Robert Musil
When you research the philosophy behind Prussian education, you will find that the purpose was to produce soldiers and employees, people who would follow orders and do as they were told. The Prussian system is for mass-producing employees.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other
~ Larry Wall
was all uniformity;—he was systematical, and, like all systematic reasoners, he would move both heaven and earth, and twist and torture every thing in nature to support his hypothesis.
~ Laurence Sterne