Uniformity Quotes
113 Uniformity quotes by 90 unique authors
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Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But…
— Alexander Hamilton
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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
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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
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The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity.
— Tariq Ramadan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.
— John Ruskin
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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
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God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.
— Roger Williams
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity.
— Octavio Paz
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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
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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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