Quotes about Uniformity

Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide; all the curtains were the same size.

There is a kind of intolerant spirit now abroad which arises out of the growing power of party and other machinery — a spirit which resents individual opinion, which clamours for uniformity and political Test Acts.

Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.

I try to be the same guy every day, no matter the situation, no matter the adversity.

The sole equality on earth is death.

Many churches offer more entertainment than worship, more uniformity than diversity, more exclusivity than outreach, more law than grace.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame. 2. 'If they be led by virtue, and uniformity sought to be given them by the rules of propriety, they will have the sense of shame, and moreover will become good.

Oamenii isi pot cumpara masini de orice culoare poftesc, numai sa fie neagra!

Reason and experiment have been indulged, and error has fled before them. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.

An index is a great leveller.