Inflexible Quotes

69 Inflexible quotes by 56 unique authors

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
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
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. — George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
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
Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people. — Haruki Murakami
She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time. — Azar Nafisi
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
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
Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms. — James Beattie
German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship. — Suzanne Fields
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
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
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
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
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
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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