Lord Northcliffe Quotes

One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.'

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.

Nobody's unique. Everybody copies off of each other. Everybody wears the same type of stuff. Nobody's an individual anymore.

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

The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products.

What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There are a lot of great individuals, but it can become a very blank and bleak picture.

I do everything that everybody else does.

Each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one and that is a very frightening thing.

TV has made everyone so vanilla it's nearly impossible to tell one anchor apart from another.

I'm from Long Island, which is a very cookie-cutter place.

So many people want to have this typical look and this typical everything and it's all the same everywhere.

The world needs more standardization, less innovation.

Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

Everything's getting homogenized. It seems to me like music and behavior and everything else is getting homogenized.

I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine.

A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to the common mold.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same.

We're all getting lashed to the great wheel of uniformity.

We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

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 this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.