“The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.”

— George Steiner

Source: Real Presences (1989), I: A Secondary City, Ch. 6 (p. 27).

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American writer 1929–2020

Fritz Wotruba (1907–1975) Austrian sculptor (23 April 1907, Vienna – 28 August 1975, Vienna)

Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 10.

“Uniforms ruin every character”

Max Frisch (1911–1991) Swiss playwright and novelist

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“We point out that not every reactant is completely consumed in a chemical reaction, and that the limiting reactant determines the maximum theoretical yield; the percentage yield may be somewhat less.”

David W. Oxtoby (1951) President of Pomona college

Principles of Modern Chemistry (7th ed., 2012), Ch. 2 : Chemical Formulas, Equations, and Reaction Yields

“The individual… is not born a member of society. He is born with a predisposition towards sociality, and he becomes a member of society. In the life of every individual, therefore, there is a temporal sequence, in the course of which he is inducted into participation in the societal dialectic. The beginning point of this process is internalization : the immediate apprehension or interpretation of an objective event as expressing meaning, that is, as a manifestation of another's subjective processes which thereby becomes subjectively meaningful to myself.”

Peter L. Berger book The Social Construction of Reality

Source: The Social Construction of Reality, 1966, p. 129 (1999; 149)

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

Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America

Book Four, Chapter III.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Four

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

Emma Goldman (1868–1940) anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches

"The Individual, Society and the State" (1940) http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/goldman/works/1940/individual.htm
Context: Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very "uniqueness," "separateness" and "differentiation" make him an alien, not only in his native place, but even in his own home. Often more so than the foreign born who generally falls in with the established.