Uniformity Quotes

113 Uniformity quotes by 90 unique authors

Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But… — Alexander Hamilton
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring… — H. L. Mencken
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that… — Allan Bloom
The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity. — Tariq Ramadan
Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held, a nice way… — Robert Nozick
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details, which must be attended to if rules have to be… — Alexis de Tocqueville
With sport went beer drinking and gambling - until recently restricted by the wowsers, but part of that code of mateship of men, that necessity… — Donald Horne
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities,… — Octavio Paz
There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire… — Eric Hoffer
I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold. — John Ruskin
All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity ... that in nature there… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state. — Roger Williams
An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and civility, and that… — Roger Williams
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.… — James Madison
The artist is always searching for the meaning of life, his own and that of mankind, searching for truth. A system of uncertainty has entered… — Unknown Author
The social designs that are proposed in [The Venus Project] merely provide the opportunity for individuals to develop their fullest potential in whatever endeavor they… — Jacque Fresco
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to… — George Santayana
The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started… — Ernst Mayr
In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is… — Yoshida Kenko
The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events.… — William Kingdon Clifford
If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism… — Charles Sanders Peirce
We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual… — Walter Crane
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. — Octavio Paz
Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent… — Eric Hoffer
Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as… — Charles Evans Hughes

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