Sameness Quotes

Sameness Quote of the day

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

Unity does not mean sameness. It means oneness of purpose.

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade, The sanctity of sameness in a shade.

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian.

People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.

Just as the pure crystal takes color from the object which is nearest to it, so the mind, when it is cleared of thought-waves, achieves sameness or identity with the object of its concentration.

Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.

Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.

We already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development.

There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.

You're more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters.

One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.

Today, we talk a lot about equality, but I think what most people mean by it is sameness - that everybody is the same - and they are afraid if they are not the same, they are not equal.

Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.

Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

What is it about sameness that so draws me, and how could I begin to have that same kind of attraction to change?

We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

Sameness is what marketers want us to want.

It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.

There's a sameness and comfort level you get living in a country like America.

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

The media of sameness and separation represent the world in its most religious form - the structuring of the social in images.

You don't get new products and services out of sameness.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness.

When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.

Liberalism is a scourge. It destroys the human spirit. It destroys prosperity. It assigns sameness to everybody. And wherever I find it, I oppose it.

We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.

I've felt that in the past, where I just felt like I had to keep drawing in the same way to maintain this sameness and rhythm throughout an entire book, and it was not really necessary.

The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.

Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you.

There is no movement in Nirvana. There is no sameness. And one does not consider it to be timeless because one is not one. It is you, my friend, who go away.

One more piece of sky in the jigsaw puzzle of our school.

To become a true global citizen, one must abandon all notions of otherness and instead embrace togetherness.

We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance.

You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the station, of those winter Saturdays all alike.