Julian Baggini

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.

British Author

Huston Smith

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.

American Theologian

Andrew Jackson

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.

American President

Angela Carter

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

English Novelist

Suzanne Fields

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.

American Journalist

Brett Kavanaugh

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.

American Judge

Tara Stiles

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.

American Model

George Bernard Shaw

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

Irish Playwright

Abraham Lincoln

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

James Beattie

Scottish Poet

Describes someone who will not alter their opinion or course of action under any circumstances.

Uncompromising Stance

Often carries a negative tone, suggesting stubbornness and an unwillingness to consider others' views.

Emotional Tone

Generally refers to objects that cannot be easily bent or shaped, usually due to material properties.

Physical Limitation

Implies that an object is durable but could also break if force is applied beyond its limit.

Durability Implication

Indicates that rules or procedures must be followed exactly, with no exceptions or allowances for unique circumstances.

Uniform Application

Can imply that an authority is unjust or excessively harsh, impacting morale.

Negative Perception

 not for more arguments, but for better arguments, I'd pick the open-source programmers. Programming is a three-way relationship between a programmer, some source code, and the computer it's meant to run on, but computers are such famously inflexible interpreters of instructions

Clay Shirky: How the...

 she opened a computer store then studied to be a beautician and opened another business and the women came with their stories about men who could not make the transition angry and inflexible and troubled children caught between two worlds brands and sponsors were sought

My immigration story -...

 Internet his vision was to enable man and machine to cooperate in making decisions in controlling complex situations without the inflexible dependence on predetermined programs note that word cooperate Lickliter encourages us to take a toaster and make it data from

The rise of human-compute...

 due to his inflexible prosthetic legs. Ten years ago, I had no clue what a cluster bomb was, nor its horrifying implications. I learned that this indiscriminate weapon was used in so many parts of the world and continues to kill on a regular basis,

The deadly legacy of...

 She opened a computer store, then studied to be a beautician and opened another business. And the women came with their stories about men who could not make the transition, angry and inflexible, and troubled children caught between two worlds.

Tan Le: My immigration...

 His vision was to enable man and machine to cooperate in making decisions, controlling complex situations without the inflexible dependence on predetermined programs. Note that word "cooperate." Licklider encourages us not to take a toaster

Shyam Sankar: The rise...

 acquisition unit and because they're hardwired they are sometimes very expensive they're time consuming to put together and they're quite inflexible but they're also susceptible to cable and connector issues so wireless sensor

How electromagnetic...

 So in the bird, air passes through the lung, but the lung does not expand or contract. The lung is immobilized, it has the texture of a dense sponge and it's inflexible and locked into place on the top and sides by the ribcage

The secret weapon that...

 is at least in mind that are not fundamentally inflexible some of these verses are definite in meaning it says and others are ambiguous the perverse at heart will seek out the ambiguities trying to create the score by pinning

On reading the Koran -...

 forgiveness is supreme -- and so, essentially, better if you don't. This was perhaps the biggest surprise -- how flexible the Koran is, at least in minds that are not fundamentally inflexible.