Quotes of Standardization - somelinesforyou

“ Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity. ”

- Arnold J. Toynbee

“ If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere. ”

- Henry Ford

“ Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. ”

- Frederick E. Crane

“ Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world. ”

- Felix E. Schelling
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