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Quotes About Intransigent

La Chiesa maestra non inventa la sua dottrina; ella è teste, è custode, è interprete, è tramite, e per quanto riguarda le verità proprie del messaggio cristiano essa si può dire conservatrice, intransigente; e a chi la sollecita di rendere più facile, più relativa ai gusti della mutevole mentalità dei tempi la sua fede, risponde con gli Apostoli: "Non possumus, non possiamo (Act 4,20)
~ Pope Paul VI
Although rarely given a clear definition, "extremism," in essence, is a term used to condemn those who hold unpopular values intransigently and in action refuse to compromise them; the nature of such action is not delimited by the concept.
~ Leonard Peikoff
I am not flexible.
~ Tom Fletcher
Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads
~ Ayn Rand
Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads.
~ Ayn Rand
My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire.
~ Hanif Kureishi
con-tu-ma-cious (adjective). Obstinately resisting authority; stubbornly perverse.
~ Julia Quinn
recalcitrant
~ Mick Wall
O heart, heart, so singularly Intransigent and corruptible, Here we lie entranced by the starlit water, And moments that should each last forever Slide unconsciously by us like water. — Kenneth Rexroth, from "Another Spring," One Hundred Poems from the Chinese . (New Directions January 17, 1971) Originally published 1956.
~ Kenneth Rexroth
There is absolutely no doubt that Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF have lost the popular support of the people of Zimbabwe. And the more they become intransigent, the more they become vicious and try to repress people, the more it turns people against them, and the less chance they have of ever holding onto power.
~ Roy Bennett
The Unconvincibles are the people who are not amenable to reason of any sort. Their minds are not only closed, but bolted and hermetically sealed. In most cases , their beliefs congealed at an early age; by the time they left their teens, they were encased in a rigid framework of thought and feeling, which no evidence or argument can penetrate.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.
~ Ayn Rand
The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children.
~ Juan Williams