Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America
Book Four, Chapter III.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Four
“America's youth: Dim-witted, self-indulgent, politically correct,” https://jungefreiheit.de/kolumne/2015/amerikas-jugend-dusselig-selbstverliebt-politisch-korrekt/ Junge Freiheit, March 26, 2015. <br class="br">2010s, 2015
Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America
Book Four, Chapter III.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Four
“The uniformity and obedience of the media”
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1980s
Context: The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire, [... ]
Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace, 1985, p. 275
Commonly rephrased as: "Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the [U.S.] media."
“If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Books, Napalm and Silly Putty (2001)
“Uniforms ruin every character”
Max Frisch (1911–1991) Swiss playwright and novelist
Sketchbook 1946-1949
“Equivalence signifies uniformity and thus immobility.”
Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) austrian philosopher and inventor
Implosion Magazine, No. 113, p. 23 (Callum Coats: Energy Evolution (2000))
Implosion Magazine
Marcus Sedgwick (1968) British writer and illustrator
Source: The Foreshadowing
“Uniformity is the death of life. Wherever there is life, there is diversity.”
Kurien Kunnumpuram (1931–2018) Indian theologian
Kunnumpuram, K. (2009) Towards the Fullness of Life: Reflections on the Daily Living of the Faith. Mumbai: St Pauls
On the Church
“In sociology, just as in biology, uniformity and immobility are death.”
Alfredo Rocco (1875–1935) Italian politician and jurist
“L'ora del nazionalismo” (“Nationalism's hour”), 1919 essay in Alfredo Rocco’s Scritti e discorsi politici, Milan: Giuffrè. Vol. 2, (1938) p. 510
“Normality is a boring uniformity, madness a lively uniqueness.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: La normalità è una noiosa uniformità, la follia una vivace unicità.
Source: prevale.net
“For the unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1963, Third State of the Union Address