Best Monoculture Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A researcher said, “A diverse nation is a more divided nation.” Who knew? Duh! Multicultural nations are always divided, and, as Abraham Lincoln told us, a House divided against itself cannot stand. Multiculturalism must be smashed to smithereens. What we need is a diverse monoculture, as prevailed in ancient Greece, with its countless city-states, all following a common religion, language and general culture. We need competitive diversity, but an overall level of cooperation and common identity. Football teams compete with each other in a league. They all obey the rules and framework of the league, and don’t go off and do their own thing. The league is a diverse monoculture. In a multicultural system, different cultures would reject the league, and create their own leagues, or even reject football entirely, and play alien sports imported from their originating cultures. It’s time people got real. Multicultural division is a disaster. Monocultural division is competitive and enjoyable.”

Football Diversity Tolerance Intolerance Multiculturalism Monoculture Cultural Wars

Book:The Intelligence Wars: Logos Versus Mythos

Source: The Intelligence Wars: Logos Versus Mythos

“The dream of control is seductive but it leads to monoculture in the field and fortified white bread in the supermarket.”

Food Bread Control Monoculture

Book:Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

“Monoculture wants you to forget that the joy of life is in the community of the village, where you can touch, taste, smell, feel and experience a motley potpourri of cultural vicissitudes.”

Freedom Thoughts On Life Monoculture

Book:Voice of Reason

Source: Voice of Reason

“Every new step in the direction of simplification – toward monoculture, say, ore genetically identical plants – leads to unimaginable new complexities.(intended as challenges)”

Simplification Monoculture Clones Monocropping

Book:The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

Source: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

“When a livestock farmer is willing to "practice complexity"-to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed to behave and eat as it evolved to-he will find he has little need for machinery, fertilizer, and, most strikingly, chemicals. He finds he has no sanitation problem or any of the diseases that result from raising a single animal in a crowded monoculture and then feeding it things it wasn't designed to eat. This is perhaps the greatest efficiency of a farm treated as a biological system: health.”

“The main goal is to increase diversity. The one thing that is bad for society is low diversity. This is true for culture or evolution, for species and also for whole societies. If you become a monoculture, you are at great risk of perishing.”

Ifs Whole Culture Goal Risk One Thing Evolution Diversity Lows Increase Species Great Risk Perishing Monoculture

Author:George M. Church

“Nature doesn't like empires. It doesn't like accumulation in one place, it doesn't like monoculture. It's always trying to make diverse species. It wants to spread everything out. And we're constantly trying to hold everything in.”

Want Trying Species Spread Empires Diverse Accumulation Always Trying Monoculture

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“Unfortunately, we live in a time when the media are almost a monoculture.”

Media Monoculture

Author:Orson Scott Card

“I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I don't want to live in an elitist, progressive monoculture.”

Want Kind Black Wealthy Progressive Elitist Monoculture

Author:Richard Benjamin

“There's no choice left in America anymore. Anything that's authentic and genuine, anything that grew out of any sense of tradition, is wiped out. We're left with this bland monoculture that's swept over the whole country.”

Country Whole America Choices Left Grew Tradition Genuine Bland Monoculture

Author:Terry Zwigoff

“On my Instagram, I'm always keeping a record of things being pulled down in Soho and shutters being closed. Every city - and London more than anywhere - has got to be a vibrant mix of all different things. We can't allow it to become a monoculture.”

Different Cities Records London Different Things Instagram Shutters Soho Monoculture

Author:Marc Almond

“If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind."”

“A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is the root of why we have pitted equity against ecology and sustainability against justice.”

Thinking Way Mind Self Justice Roots Sustainability Ecology Fulfilling Prophecy Equity Way Of Thinking Self Fulfilling Prophecy Monoculture

Author:Vandana Shiva

“It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing.”

Mind Turns Healing Mistake Violence Diversity Monoculture

Author:Vandana Shiva

“[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.”

World Doe Facts Culture Diversity Endure Muse Swamps Bland Monoculture

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“We should take a lesson from the Irish potato famine: monocultures are vulnerable. Monocultures of any kind are very vulnerable, because one change and you're cooked. So we should be diversifying, wouldn't you say?”

Should Kind Lessons Vulnerable Potatoes Famine Monoculture Potato Famine

Author:Margaret Atwood

“What I propose for the "life of a poet" goes against the grain of the fossil fuel monoculture. Maybe the most revolutionary act these days is not to watch television and to read a book a day at least.”

Book Watches Television Poet These Days Revolutionary Fuel Grain Fossils Propose Fossil Fuel Monoculture

Author:Anne Waldman

“Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in wild species ... Mankind has opted for monoculture; it is in the process of creating a mass civilization, as beetroot is grown in the mass. Henceforth, man's daily bill of fare will consist only of this one item.”

Men Two Process Rich Mankind Flower Civilization Creating Mass Areas Bills Species Complexity Soil Delicate Items Biodiversity Monoculture Delicate Flower

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that seeds must be in the hands of farmers.”

Mean Hands Seeds Farmers Inappropriate Biodiversity Monoculture

Author:Vandana Shiva

“A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.”

Trying Democracy Hollywood Monoculture

Author:Bernardo Bertolucci