66 Quotes About Rigidity

The shape of democracy is defined by our sense of unity, not by our ideological loyalty, not by our nationalist stubbornness, not by our religious rigidity.

Rigidity and civilization can never go together.

Sonnet of ProgressWhere the nation ends,There the world begins.Where the self fades,There community begins.Where luxury withers,There equality begins.Where biases shrink,There truth begins.Where pride dies,There growth begins.Where rigidity ends,There life begins.Such true life is forever revered.Prejudice conquered is world conquered.

When I was at university, my dorm was in a red light area. Often after class on my way to the dorm, I would sit with those sisters of mine and listen to their stories and struggles for hours - just listening to them pouring their heart out gave me a kind of uncorrupted bliss that couldn't be explained with human words. You don't need to be a practicing physician or psychiatrist to ease the pain of others, listening to them as a human being crossing prejudice is enough.

My conception stands opposed to social science as a set of bureaucratic techniques which inhibit social inquiry by ‘methodolocigal’ pretentions, which congest such work by obscurantist conceptions, or which trivialize it by concern with minor problems unconnected with publicly relevant issues.

[I]t wasn't so much the mistakes that people made but how flexible they were in their aftermath that made all the difference in how their lives turned out.

The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them – in the long run– without undermining the needs of the moment. Bad presidents simply do what is expedient, heedless of principles. But the worst presidents are those who adhere to the principles regardless of what the fortunes of the moment demand.

Expansion is life, narrowness is death. Universality is life, nationality is death.

All that is old is not necessarily gold. Accepting yesterday’s good move ahead bold.