Quotes About Inflexible

There are few things in the world more blinding than race prejudice, and there are but few things more inflexible and persistent. Against the claims of truth and justice, to say nothing of brotherly kindness, it stands like a wall of brass. Reason and common sense dash themselves against it in vain.

All truth claims are absolute, narrow, and exclusive.

the increasingly common ideology that assures people they're right about what they believe.... is, however, socially detrimental . It hijacks conversation and aborts ideas. It engenders a delusion of simplicity that benefits people with inflexible minds. It makes the experience of living in a society slightly worse than it should be.

There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

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.

Churches, by the very reason of their structures, are monolithic and do not adapt easily. But in many cases, they, too, have allowed themselves to become allied or even part of an unjust establishment or system.

It doesn't matter what you say [to me] after "even though". I never change my mind. Give it up.

He's the south end of a northbound horse.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

It occurred to Liz one day, as she waited on hold for an estimate from a yard service, that her parents' home was like an extremely obese person who could no longer see, touch, or maintain jurisdiction over all of his body; there was simply too much of it, and he—they—had grown weary and inflexible. During

Morality he found amusing, in the obscure way that only a man with a Ph.D. in philosophy could find such things amusing, but justice and ethics were inflexible measures, applicable to all, and not to be joked about.

I've been called 'hardheaded,' 'obstinate,' 'unreasonable,' etc.

The strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how to be flexible.

Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.

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.

I think justices of all stripes agree that stare decisis is important, but not an inextricable command. It's not inflexible; it's not absolute.

steadfast in imposing penalties

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

I'm not going to change; I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

I am... stubborn, and I admit it, so it's OK.

I can be a little bit stubborn.

Sometimes I can be a little bit I don't know, stubborn or something. Maybe to a fault.

I'm stubborn.