I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire... — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism. — Nick Cohen Copy Share Image
Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Every character is in some respects uniform, and in others inconsistent; and it is only by the study both of the uniformity… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
With sport went beer drinking and gambling - until recently restricted by the wowsers, but part of that code of mateship of… — Donald Horne Copy Share Image
Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The Bible provides unity without imposing uniformity, without prohibiting change; it is a standing invitation to thinking and to take responsibilities. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used. Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
If you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“The cities were sucking all the life of the country into themselves and destroying it. Men were no longer individuals but units… — Leigh Brackett Copy Share Image
With the rise of industrialism, words like 'normal' and 'defective,' words that had once only been used to refer to things, began… — Anne Finger Copy Share Image
It is advertising that enthrones the customer as king. This infuriates the socialist...[it is] the crossing of the boundary between West Berlin… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
In primitive society, where uniformity of occupation is the rule, and the distribution of the community into various classes of workers has… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
There is a conceptual depth as well as a purely visual depth. The first is discovered by science; the second is revealed… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what is done with it and… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“A humorous treatment of the rigid uniformitarian view came from Mark Twain. Although the shortening of the Mississippi River he referred to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be… — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image