Words matter. These are the best Inflexible Quotes from famous people such as Julian Baggini, Blase J. Cupich, Oscar Niemeyer, Michel Faber, Juan Williams, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.
There should be reluctance to make a national policy so inflexible that it fails to take into account the country’s diversity.
Right angles don’t attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.
The family I grew up in was very inflexible and harsh. It left me with the feeling that if you do let somebody down badly, then even if they tell you it’s all right, it cannot be all right.
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 the Left.
You adhere to a philosophy, but part of the philosophy I have is that I don’t want to be too doggone inflexible that I miss a good player.
German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
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 any correct definition of the term law.
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
Public school teachers enjoy a huge amount of job security, thanks to their powerful unions and inflexible work rules.
The Soviet system is how everything here works. It’s very difficult to break the system. The system is big and inflexible, uneffective, and also corrupt. And that is our main goal: to change the system, to break the system, to make it modern.
As you grow older, you become – everybody becomes – less inflexible and a little more accommodating.
I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives – Freedom and Independence!
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 of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.
Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.
If you are inflexible in the body, look at what you are holding onto unnecessarily in your life. Release tension, and life will open up.
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 lose a parent because of an inflexible law.
I had assumed that Bush’s seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know.
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
