In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
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
Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
If you have unity without variety, you have uniformity and that's boring. If you have variety without unity, you have anarchy. — Skip Heitzig Copy Share Image
Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. — Francis Bacon 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 superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end… — Henry Fuseli 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
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
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
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
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
Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held… — Michel Foucault 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
Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied… — Danny Baker Copy Share Image
I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other. Is uniformity… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a… — James Madison 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