Uniforms Quotes - Page 14

• Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.

  Wendell Berry

  Party, Lines, Individualism

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.84, Counterpoint

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• I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

  Dontrelle Willis

  League, Want, Circus

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• My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

  Gary Carter

  Kids, Practice, Desire

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• While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

  John Yoo

  War, Law, Fighter

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• A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

  Mo Yan

  Dark, Expression, Criticism

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• At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.

  Ted Lindsay

  Wings, Red

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• Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation.

  Daniel Suarez

  Simple, Perfect, Enemy

  Daniel Suarez (2010). “Daemon”, p.270, Hachette UK

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• The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous as is possible. The state is justified in insisting that children shall be educated, but it is not justified in forcing their education to proceed on a uniform plan and to be directed to the production of a dead level of glib uniformity.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Levels, Opinion

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel (1995). “Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18”, p.261, Psychology Press

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• These days, it's often women in uniform - moms, wives, even grandmothers - who deploy and leave their families behind.

  Tulsi Gabbard

  Mom, Grandmother, Wife

  "House women DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.

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• Michael Jordan always wore his Carolina shorts under his Bulls' uniform.

  Lorrie Fair

  Bulls, Jordan, Carolina

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• When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of our enemies,you must excuse me for saying it is high time, by other lessons, to teach respect to the dictates of humanity; in such a case, retaliation becomes an act of benevolence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kindness, Exercise, Humanity

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.18, Algora Publishing

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• Thus, at long last, as a visible emblem of unity was daily growing in the new Palace of Justice then being erected in the Strand, half way between the historic site of Westminster the historic centre of the commercial capital of the world, there began to grow up, in the minds of reformers, the vision of a great and united Supreme Court of Justice, with uniform principles, uniform law, and uniform procedure.

  Edward Jenks

  Growing Up, Law, Justice

  "A Short History Of The English Law". Book by Edward Jenks, (First Edition), Chapter XIX, Modern Civil Procedure, p. 364, 1912.

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• The love that loves a scarlet coat Should be more uniform.

  Honorius Augustodunensis

  Coats, Should, Scarlet

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• For the anarch, little is changed when he strips off a uniform that he wore partly as fool's motley, partly as camouflage. It covers his spiritual freedom, which he will objectivate during such transitions. This distinguishes him from the anarchist, who, objectively unfree, starts raging until he is thrust into a more rigorous straitjacket.

  Ernst Junger

  Spiritual, Transition, Camouflage

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• What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!

  Duke of Wellington

  Coward, Mask

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• Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They like to wear uniforms, and they frown on personal idiosyncrasies. Deviance is the mark of an outsider.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Children, Individuality, Deviance

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• What a fine-looking thing is war!
  Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Song, War, Gold

  Douglas William Jerrold (1846). “The Chronicles of Clovernook: With Some Account of the Hermit of Bellyfulle”, p.142

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• While I never served in uniform, I fully understand the great service and sacrifice that our brave men and women have given to our country.

  Marc Veasey

  Country, Sacrifice, Men

  "Taking Veterans’ Concerns Seriously" by Rep. Marc Veasey, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2014.

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• When the brave men and women who serve our nation in uniform leave to deploy overseas, they dont just leave behind their family and friends, often times they leave behind jobs and livelihoods as well. After the sacrifices they have made, making sure that they have access to a good paying job to support their families when they return is the least we can do.

  Tim Walz

  Jobs, Sacrifice, Men

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• The United States of America has helped underwrite the global security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms. The service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform has promoted peace and prosperity from Germany to Korea and enabled democracy to take hold in places like the Balkans.

  Barack Obama

  Sacrifice, Men, Blood

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.

  Carine Roitfeld

  High Heels, Legs, Skirts

  "Beauty and style secrets from our favourite French icons". www.stylist.co.uk.

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• The uniform of Polish Uhlan makes even the youngest, inexperienced boy looks like he's made from steel.

  Maynard Owen Williams

  Boys, Steel, Looks

  The National Geographic, August 1926.

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• There is a special blessing in old clothes, and that aside from their comfort, for which especially they are to be cherished. They confer a kind of anonymity on one who wears them gladly; all their bright places rubbed to a uniform dullness, they achieve an appearance so nearly nondescript that only a close scrutiny could learn that ever they held shape at all.

  Maude Meagher

  Blessing, Clothes, Special

  Maude Meagher (1931). “Fantastic Traveller”

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• There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote extremely conventional and uniform expressions of gender and sexuality in order to promote certain products and lifestyle choices that are commercialized. This necessarily entails a capitulation to heteronormativity, or in the case of the new gay movement, a "homonormativity" that doesn't stray far from the heterosexual paradigm. Anyone who questions these normative values and conventions is subject to disapproval, hostility, or even violence.

  Bruce LaBruce

  Gay, Order, Lifestyle Choices

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• Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus were incorporated in it; for these are, so to speak, suburbs of our language. (And how many houses or streets does it take before a town begins to be a town?) Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Squares, Cities, Symbolism

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