32 Quotes About Sameness

We look at sunflowers, they all look the same; we look at people, they all look the same! Everyone became same because everyone is focused on the same things that society wants of them! Everyone is striving to fulfil the destiny that society has drawn for them!

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.

The most important thing to keep in mind is not that we are all the same, but that we are all equally weird.

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

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

There is no need to become unique. We already are unique. There is no need to become equal. We already are equal. The greatest tragedies of humankind have come from people trying to force sameness on the level we are different, and trying to become different on the level we are the same. Peace is a matter of recognizing what is already there, not creating something new.

It would be both an identical work of art only by virtue of its difference. The same but different, he suggested, like twins.

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

Nowhere in the world do you find this evenness that people use as a norm. And I find it fascinating that they will hold up as a norm something that has never been seen on this planet, and regard as an anomaly something that is seen in country after country.