Quotes about rigidly (15 Quotes)



    In some cases, this may actually make the difference. It has an impact on those people who aren't rigidly in favor of the death penalty, but who could still change their minds.

    Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious-that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.


    People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.


    Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.





    In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus. . .

    An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them is quite likely to dismiss his business. Success is the sum of detail. It might perhaps be pleasing to imagine oneself beyond detail and engaged only in great things, but as I have often observed, if one attends only to great things and lets the little things pass the great things become little that is, the business shrinks. It is not possible for an executive to hold himself aloof from anything. No business, no matter what its size, can be called safe until it has been forced to learn economy and rigidly to measure values of men and materials.

    There are only two choices A police state in which all dissent is suppressed or rigidly controlled or a society where law is responsive to human needs. If society is to be responsive to human needs, a vast restructuring of our laws is essential.


    Keeping those two segments of the country from fragmenting is not going to be an easy task. He will have to throw concessions to both sides. He cannot rigidly be on the side of one or the other.



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