Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse…

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

Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy…

— Ida Tarbell

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

— Diane Ravitch

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

— Henry Ford

The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest…

— Walter Gropius

The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is…

— Tom Robbins

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

— Susan Glaspell

There are various non-statistical tools that have been typically developed by lean companies, notably by Toyota for minimizing variability in production, such as standardization,…

— Masaaki Imai

Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method.

— Reginald Fessenden

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The world needs more standardization, less innovation.

— Steve Eisman

In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of…

— Dana Gioia

Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of…

— Tom Robbins

Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new…

— Alvar Aalto

Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American…

— H. L. Mencken