Top 118 Sameness Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

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

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

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

Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even the children of the military are brought up with that sense of order and sameness.

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

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

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

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.

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.

With sport went beer drinking and gambling - until recently restricted by the wowsers, but part of that code of mateship of men, that necessity constantly to demonstrate masculine sameness, which provided one of the most flattening sources of uniformity.

Historically, there's been a degree of sameness to animated films.

There's a big difference between oneness and sameness. Oneness implies that we're all connected and that we all come from the same source. Sameness implies that we all have to do things and exactly think the same way as everybody else does.

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

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

A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.

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

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

There is something about the sameness people like. And what I've tried to do with all the zombie films is purposely make them different. That may be part of why it takes so long for people to see what it's intended to be.

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.

And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.

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

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

When all of your decisions are based on economics, you end up with a sameness of vision. You're not taking the risks, you're not exploiting the passions of your creators. You're manufacturing product for a huge vending machine.

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

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.

Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine. To be able to break out of its dark brown sameness.

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.

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

I love the nooks and crannies of the American landscape; the back roads and back alleys, the places that are still untouched by the corporate gloss, the veneer of sameness that seems to be spreading across the country.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to publish - or read - books that have a wide potential audience. But it does generate a certain plodding sameness of tone and subject matter that plagues a lot of contemporary American fiction.

Women of the world today dress alike. They are like so many loaves of bread. To be beautiful one must be unhurried. Personality is needed. There is too much sameness. The world seems only to have a desire for more of this sameness. To be different is to be alone.

Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their collective sameness. The "poets of society," the men who challenged the norms, would have to be silenced so that sameness could be maintained.

That which is to be most desired in America is oneness and not sameness. Sameness is the worst thing that could happen to the people of this country. To make all people the same would lower their quality, but oneness would raise it.

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

If sometimes there seems to be a sort of sameness of sound in The New Yorker, it probably can be traced to the magazine's copydesk, which is a marvelous fortress of grammatical exactitude and stylish convention.

Sameness is what marketers want us to want.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference.

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

If we wish to ensure everyone’s peace and happiness we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings