Quotes About Rigidity

Clearly, these two developments—corporate dominance and a managed electorate—point to a certain political rigidity that is reflected in perhaps the most striking aspect of the present predicament: the absence of alternatives other than variations on the theme of economic orthodoxy.

An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.

Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death.

I'm a man of stone - and my hands are not soft enough to brush away, each stray wisp of hair

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

Anxiety is the evil conjoined twin of rigidity.

The most outstanding trait in my friend's character was, as I had experienced myself, the unparalleled consistency in everything that he said and did. There was in his nature something firm, inflexible, immovable, obstinately rigid, which manifested itself in his profound seriousness and was at the bottom of all his other characteristics. Adolf simply could not change his mind or his nature. Everything that lay in these rigid precincts of his being remained unaltered forever.

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

I think my whole deal was I didn't think other people had a right to an opinion. I think the problem I had was, in real life, it was my way or the highway, and if people disagreed with me, then they were just wrong.

I'm a creature of habit. I don't really like change.

As companies grow they acquire a dogma that constrains them.

It is the novelist's duty to attack society, for its false complacency, for its repressive rigidity, and for its self-righteous insensitivity. Society is women. Therefore, the novelist must attack and punish women in his works.

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

the ancient embodiment of good! It breeds intolerance, rigidity, a belief that because I am right, those who don't believe as I do are wrong.

When the good holds sway) it breeds intolerance, rigidity, a belief that because I am right, those who don't believe as I do are wrong. - Palidine, Chief God of Good

En su mirada dura y fría había algo inflexible. A Roger le recordó esas miradas vacías de humanidad de los jefes de estación de las caucherías del Putumayo, miradas de hombres que han perdido (si alguna vez la tuvieron) la facultad de discriminar entre el bien y el mal, la bondad y la maldad, lo humano y lo inhumano

The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail…. Whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life.

His turn-out was emphatically excellent, and he diffused waves of personality, strong, chilling gusts of icy air, a protective element that threatened to freeze into rigidity all who came through the door, before they could approach him nearer.

It was as if I were a little girl again, afraid of shadows in the stucco walls of our hallway; they looked like monsters—were monsters, to me in my rigid insomniac sentinel. But you can never tell with shadows. You have to be vigilant, always, because maybe you're crazy, but maybe you're right.

If you want to expel religion from our European civilization, you can only do it by means of another system of doctrines; and such a system would from the outset take over all the psychological characteristics of religion—the same sanctity, rigidity and intolerance, the same prohibition of thought—for its own defence. You have to have something of the kind in order to meet the requirements of education. And you cannot do without education.

I'll say this for her, she sticks to what she believes. But a person can believe something so hard they lose sight of everything else.

It is an unimaginatively standardized background, a sluggishness of speech and manners, a rigid ruling of the spirit by the desire to appear respectable. It is contentment . . . the contentment of quiet dead, who are scornful of the living for their restless walking. It is negation canonized as the one positive virtue. It is the prohibition of happiness. It is dullness made God.