Quotes About Homogeneity

The official Soviet line on the dispute emphasised harmony, homogeneity, Brotherhood. Kievan Rus was inhabited by a single monolithic 'ancient Rus' nationality, from which Russians, Ukrainians and Belarussians all descended; for them to argue over Volodymyr and Yaroslav made no more sense than for the English and French to squabble over Charlemagne. The languages of all three nations descend from the ancient Slavs', and all three inherited Orthodoxy.

has unnerved that part of the population that prefers unity and homogeneity. Democracy itself has always been loud and raucous, but when its rules are followed, it eventually creates consensus. The modern debate does not. Instead, it inspires in some people the desire to forcibly silence the rest.

and then she realized: they WERE all alike!

Whether it is the forming of a group of friends or a pod at work—or hiring for diversity of viewpoint and tolerance for dissent when you are able to guide an enterprise's culture toward accuracy—we should guard against gravitating toward clones of ourselves. We should also recognize that it's really hard: the norm is toward homogeneity; we're all guilty of it; and we don't even notice that we're doing it.

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

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

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

La normalidad es un marco convencional que homogeneiza a los humanos, como ovejas encerradas en un aprisco; pero, si miras desde lo suficientemente cerca, todos somos distintos.

con el tiempo he descubierto que la normalidad no existe; que no viene de la palabra normal, como sinónimo de lo más común, lo más abundante, lo más habitual, sino de norma, de regulación y de mandato. La normalidad es un marco convencional que homogeneiza a los humanos, como ovejas encerradas en un aprisco; pero, si miras desde lo suficientemente cerca, todos somos distintos.

The sheer magnitude and sameness of mass-produced and mass-marketed goods that Americans have grown to expect can be really disorienting.

Variety is disappearing from the human race; the same ways of acting, thinking, and feeling are to be met with all over the world.

Most times mens look pretty much alike to me.

Nature abhors homogeneity and simply adores eccentric diversity.

The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life.

Everything seems just alike in these days.

Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over.

A city man is at home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike.

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.

Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike.

On Camazotz we are all happy because we are all alike. Differences create problems. You know that, don't you, dear sister?

On Camazotz we are all happy because we are all alike. Differences create problems. You

Too many good things all seem the same after a while.

Everything was at once overwhelmingly the same and ever so slightly different.