Fear Quote by Walter Gropius

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

— Erich Fromm

Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American…

— H. L. Mencken

Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy…

— Ida Tarbell

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

— Diane Ravitch

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

— Henry Ford

The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is…

— Tom Robbins

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

— Susan Glaspell

There are various non-statistical tools that have been typically developed by lean companies, notably by Toyota for minimizing variability in production, such as standardization,…

— Masaaki Imai

Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method.

— Reginald Fessenden

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The world needs more standardization, less innovation.

— Steve Eisman

In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of…

— Dana Gioia