Best Inflexible Sayings
69 Inflexible quotes by 56 unique authors
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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always…
— Iris Murdoch
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Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence…
— Maximilien Robespierre
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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to…
— Lysander Spooner
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I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant ,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing…
— Juan Williams
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I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction,…
— Julian Baggini
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Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me.…
— Haruki Murakami
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Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.
— Haruki Murakami
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She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.
— Azar Nafisi
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I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
— Neil Gaiman
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Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations,…
— Pete Townshend
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Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
— James Beattie
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German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.
— Suzanne Fields
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We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to…
— Jose Serrano
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Terrorists have to know that (in Spain) there is going to be a government that is inflexible with terrorism and that wherever they are, they…
— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
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Be a disciple of life be soft and flexible, not a disciple of death stiff and inflexible; see external change as an opportunity for self-improvement;…
— Senoraroy
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But an officer on duty knows no one -- to be partial is to dishonor both himself and the object of his illadvised favor. What…
— Unknown Author
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Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general experience. Everything that surrounds us may be viewed…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern isset up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making…
— Iris Murdoch
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