Central government Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details, which must be attended to if rules have to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Is uniformitarianism necessary?

— Stephen Jay Gould

Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly…

— George Washington

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

— John Updike

I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules, and constrained by no stereotyped order.

— Charles Spurgeon

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

— George William Russell

Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and…

— Daniel Berrigan

My problem has always been with authority, and I'm sure if anybody understands that, it's people in uniform.

— Lewis Black

“In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence…

— Emma Goldman

World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order... The heart of their program-a…

— U Thant

Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.

— Gustav Heinemann

“Worship is Political Science 101. In every worship service, the Christian ekklesia is renewed in her unique story and language, her unique political experience…

— Peter J. Leithart