Uniformity Quotes

The enemy of individuality is groupthink.

It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.

There must … be only one empire, one faith, and one sovereignty in the world.

War is the health of the state. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense.

The era of individualism, liberalism and democracy, of humanitarianism and freedom, is nearing its end. The masses will accept with resignation the victory of the Caesars, the strong men, and will obey them. Life will descend to a level of general uniformity, a new kind of primitivism, and the world will be better for it.....

‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.

There are neighborhoods in France that are not French… Why would immigrants want to change France is they left their country to live in France? .. You have two kinds of people living in France: The French and the others…. To offer something to the world, France has to remain France.|

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 man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Equal doesn't mean identical.

There is something romantic about the world being a diverse place, where every place has a Starbucks and Denny's.

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.

All men are alike. The approach is different; the result is always the same.

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

Is it better to lower the price of corn, or isn't it? It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.

To me, style is consistency.

Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

There's no thought given to the individual because there aren't any individuals in socialism; everybody's the same.

Nature is very constant and conformable with herself.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

Our songs all carry the same way.

Pluralism is political polytheism…. a unitary society cannot assimilate a welter of competing, incommensurate moral claims.

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity.

When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.