Quotes About Homogeneity

La actitud tiránica mantiene a la sociedad en una predictibilidad homogénea y rígida, pero la condena a un derrumbamiento final.

The cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead supposedly told her students, "You're absolutely unique, just like everyone else." Projects are like that. Whatever sets a project apart, it shares other characteristics with projects in its class.

yet the very completeness of the stillness and the homogeneity of the landscape oppressed me with a nauseating fear.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.

All newly decorated flats look the same these days. Interiors are dominated by a lot of beiges and browns and I didn't want to go for that.

When you've seen New York, you've seen almost every city in North America. Everything is uniformly the same.

Even here, out in the supposed sticks, the strip malls dominated. There were all the customary mega-stores—the Chef Central, the Home Depot, the Old Navy—the country uniting in bloated monotony. The

The same families married the same families until relationships were hopelessly entangled and the members of the community looked monotonously alike.

the same families married the same families until the members of the community looked faintly alike.

Look how you're dressed. Your suit is blue, your shirt is blue, your tie is blue. That's what's wrong with your writing.

L'unicità diventa ogni giorno più preziosa in questo nostro mondo che irrimediabilmente va facendosi sempre più uniforme.

Everyone will think the same thing at the same time. Global

Not surprisingly, of all racial groups, Whites are the most isolated. They are the most likely to live in racially homogeneous communities and the least likely to come into contact with people racially different from themselves.23

racially homogeneous communities and the least likely to come into contact with people racially different from themselves.23

When had all this conformity and sameness set in? How had it happened? When had the varied carols turned into a single corporate advertising jingle?

As people seek out the social settings they prefer—as they choose the group that makes them feel the most comfortable—the nation grows more politically segregated—and the benefit that ought to come with having a variety of opinions is lost to the righteousness that is the special entitlement of homogeneous groups.

Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the matter passes from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity, and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.

I lived in Park Slope, which is probably one of the most homogenized areas of Brooklyn. No offense to Park Slope.

The citrus-belt communities are also made up of outsiders, but, not having been periodically inundated by new migrants, they have managed to retain a degree of homogeneity and compactness.

When I speak of 'cycles ' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

Good or bad, we are attracted to things that are familiar.

All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and self-conscious laughs, all Americans, all fearsomely alike. These people should be kept at home, I thought; lock them in the basement of some goddamn Elks Club and keep them pacified with erotic movies; if they want a vacation, show them a foreign art film; and if they still aren't satisfied, send them into the wilderness and run them with vicious dogs.

Every cell in your body contains the same genetic information.