An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
But if we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain. Theology… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing… — Walter Crane 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
Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are… — Thomas Jefferson 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
To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
“GUCCI. Label me down with these codes that are commercialed in uniform. Military stripes, commander in chief, veteran in the word play,… — Jose R. Coronado Copy Share Image
Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no… — Clyde Kluckhohn 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
[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even… — Bertrand Russell 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
Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several… — Francis Hutcheson 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
“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