Uniformity Quotes

113 Uniformity quotes by 90 unique authors

Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature. — Thomas Jefferson
We're all getting lashed to the great wheel of uniformity. — Robert James Waller
O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is… — Thomas Haynes Bayly
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is… — Baron de Montesquieu
God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted in any civil state; which enforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the greatest occasion of… — Roger Williams
There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an "all Canadian" boy or… — Pierre Trudeau
Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very "uniqueness," "separateness" and "differentiation" make him… — Emma Goldman
The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it… — Oliver Goldsmith
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith,… — Tryon Edwards
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little… — E. M. Forster
The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to… — David Icke
Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was,… — Jeremy Irons
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.… — James Madison
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. — Jean Paul
The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell,… — Lewis Thomas
Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the… — C.D. Wright
The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime. — Emma Goldman
The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to… — Bertrand Russell
Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion,… — Terence McKenna
To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live… — George Orwell
Everything which might cause doubt about the wisdom of the government or create discontent will be kept from the people. The basis of unfavorable comparisons… — Friedrich August von Hayek
When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have… — Milan Kundera
There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on… — Terry Goodkind
What are Americans? We've got everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicist here, and there's certainly no uniformity in their thought processes. There's very little they… — William S. Burroughs
Unity has never meant uniformity. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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