Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

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.'

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

There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

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.

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

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

Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.

The curse of the human race is not that we are so different from each other, but that we are so alike.

We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences — "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.

I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.

It's perfect to be the same as everyone else.

I like characters in life, generally; I don't like to see a collection modelled on a homogeneous look. That terrifies me.

That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them.

Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for the reformation of Bedlam, as of the world of religious sects. Of these there must be, at least, ten thousand, every individual of every one of which believes all wrong but his own.

Physical beings want things to be the same. They want people to think the same. You work rather hard at sameness, but you will never win that battle because, from Nonphysical, diversity is known to be the most beneficial part of the game.

And so, in terms of setting the right tone and finding a way of presenting all of these things, that creates a cohesive whole and doesn't alienate the audience, is tough. That's a challenge. And I think the tone of a lot of shows is discovered through experimentation and actually making it. Eventually, it starts to cohere.

Let our tribute to the dead be a new resolve: to respect people for what they individually think, rather than respect groups for what they were collectively brought up to believe.

Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

It doesn't matter whether you believe in Christ, Moses, Allah, Brahma, Buddha, or any other being or master. Each one of us has our own beliefs, our own point of view. There are billions of different points of view, but it's the same force of life behind each one of us.

In some ways, to believe in evolution is almost like a following; a cult following - if you don't believe in evolution, you're considered completely backward. That seems to me very indicative of bias as well.

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

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.