Suzanne Farrell Quotes

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

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.

The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products.

If we all dress alike, we might as well all work in cubicles.

So many people want to have this typical look and this typical everything and it's all the same everywhere.

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.

If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor.

Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.'

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There are a lot of great individuals, but it can become a very blank and bleak picture.

It is a retrogression when human beings begin to insist on uniform, on one-mindedness, on conditioning their offspring so that all their reactions are automatic.

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

I do everything that everybody else does.

If we try and make out of the American people a people of one mind and one mold, we're through.

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

The military likes to figure out how to do something, put it in a manual or an operating procedure, and perfect doing it, and have everyone do it the same way. I don't like that.