Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

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

Each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one and that is a very frightening thing.

Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."

People have only one way to be.

I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.

Efficiency obliterates identity

Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

I look like everyone.

Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

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.

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

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

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

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

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 do everything that everybody else does.

It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.

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.

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.

Nobody's unique. Everybody copies off of each other. Everybody wears the same type of stuff. Nobody's an individual anymore.