Quotes About Rigidity

There are certain segments of society that will never lend an ear to a new idea. They squat in a certain place and will not budge from it. They will find many reasons to maintain a way of life that is comfortable to them. They'll cling to old religions; they'll fasten with the grip of death on ethics that were dead, without their knowing it, centuries before; they will embrace a logic that can be blown over with a breath, still claiming it is sacrosanct.

It is stereotypically English to accept that we are born with a fixed 'station' in life. It's what keeps the poor downtrodden.

Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left. (Interview, Time Magazine , February 20, 2005)

there was no room for dissent when it came to his beliefs, which were presented as mathematical laws. To question any of these principles resulted in disproportionate anger. Pushing back after that prompted a stubborn silence, his final and irrefutable argument. Partly because, over time, his reaction had gotten to be more exhausting than threatening, partly because it was an easy and entertaining form of rebellion, provoking him became my main sport for a

There are some people in this world who like everything squared up and precise, and there are those who will allow some drift at the margins.

Your heart is always harder than a stone.

Mademoiselle de Watteville, to whom her enormous prospective fortune at that time lent considerable importance, had been brought up exclusively within the precincts of the Hotel de Rupt — which her mother rarely quitted, so devoted was she to her dear Archbishop — and severely repressed by an exclusively religious education, and by her mother's despotism, which held her rigidly to principles. Rosalie knew absolutely nothing.

Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

In my humble opinion, change is stupid.

We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts.

In Windhoek Gottschalk once asked Wenstrup if he thought it made sense to try to plan one's life. Wenstrup didn't think so, at least as far as he was concerned. Plans ran the danger of being too rigid. They killed all spontaneity and led too quickly toward old age. He hardly thought about the future at all and had no idea what would become of him.

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A fundamentalist mind is a mind that has become rigid. First the heart closes, then the mind becomes hardened into a view, then you can justify your hatred of another human being because of what they represent and what they say and do.

The fanatic is certain that he is right.

I've had enough of it already. Shining armour. Dawn parades. Forced marches. Midnight inspections. Penalties for sloppy salutes, uncombed crests, talking after lights out. The man's mad.

combat is no place for martinets.

Calvin was not of stone, and if there are Reformed people who are, they are poor Calvinists.

Nuestras ridiculeces son causadas en gran medida por un bello sentimiento, una virtud o unas facultades llevadas al extremo. El orgullo que no se refina con el trato del gran mundo se transforma en rigidez que se apega a simples pequeñeces en vez de crecer en un círculo de sentimientos elevados.

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.

Self righteousness belongs to narrow-minded.

What reeducation had taught me was that dedicated communists were like dedicated capitalists, incapable of nuance.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

Above all the mighty detest change.