Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. — Francis Bacon 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
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. — James Madison 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
“Make difference with the uniformity; make uniformity the difference.” — Suyog Ketkar Copy Share Image
to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life. — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law,… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
...because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Religion is the rules, regulations, ceremonies and rituals developed by man to create conformity and uniformity in the approach to God. Spirituality… — Iyanla Vanzant 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
There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor.… — Greg Kramer 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
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
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
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
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
Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . .… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an… — Vandana Shiva 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
A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl. — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image