Uniform Quotes

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth. View quote
Giambattista Vico
The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform. View quote
George Steiner
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. View quote
Isaac Newton
I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself. View quote
James A. Michener
In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
I may not have been the greatest Yankee to put on the uniform, but I was the proudest. View quote
Billy Martin
When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture. (Norman Spinrad)
In addition, a century or more of efforts to arrive at a feasible and politically acceptable mix of market and nonmarket elements has not produced a definitive, stable, or uniform solution. View quote
Robert A. Dahl
In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties. View quote
Doc Hastings
I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung. View quote
Kate Smith
Michael Jordan always wore his Carolina shorts under his Bulls' uniform. View quote
Lorrie Fair
I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform. View quote
Ryne Sandberg
To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served. View quote
Solomon Ortiz
Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us. View quote
Steve Buyer
My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us. View quote
Tom Clancy
If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor. (George Carlin)
Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or abstract element. These threads are interdependent and complementary, and if one set is lacking the fabric does not exist.A picture with no representational purpose is to my mind always an incomplete technical exercise, for the only purpose of any picture is to achieve representation. View quote
Juan Gris
To look for a continuation of harmony between a number of independent, unconnected sovereignties in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Any man who has been given the honor of being promoted to general and who says, "I will protect another general who protects Communists," is not fit to wear that uniform, general. View quote
Joseph McCarthy
Courage that grows from constitution very often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it, and when it is only a kind of instinct in the Soul breaks out on all occasions without judgment or discretion. That courage which proceeds from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason. View quote
Joseph Addison