Sameness Quotes

66 quotes by 59 authors

People prefer to be with people like themselves. For all the celebration of 'diversity,' it's sameness that dominates. Most people favor friendship with those who… — Robert J. Samuelson
If we wish to ensure everyoneâ€™s peace and happiness we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded… — Dalai Lama
The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian... — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Liberalism is a scourge. It destroys the human spirit. It destroys prosperity. It assigns sameness to everybody. And wherever I find it, I oppose it. — Rush Limbaugh
People have foolishly mistaken equality for sameness. Equality of the genders means that both have equal value and worth, and one is not better than… — Mike Huckabee
Valuing differences is what really drives synergy. Do you truly value the mental, emotional, and psychological differences among people? Or do you wish everyone would… — Stephen Covey
Unity does not mean sameness. It means oneness of purpose. — Priscilla Shirer
People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth. — Bruce Lee
Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you. — Lady Gaga
We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this… — Bell Hooks
But in a crunch, when all our asses are in the sling, it looks like it is easier to deal with the samenesses. When we… — Audre Lorde
Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. — Emma Goldman
I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may… — James Boswell
Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we are… — Bell Hooks
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities. — Mary Anne Radmacher
What is it about sameness that so draws me, and how could I begin to have that same kind of attraction to change? — Mary Anne Radmacher
Boredom is the keynote of poverty ... it's dark brown sameness. — Moss Hart
Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of… — Theodor Adorno
Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality. — James Russell Lowell

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