Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.
If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.
In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided by any thing lower than an inflexible will, fixed in obedience to God, will in the end be shaped into a deformity, and guided to wreck and ruin
The strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how to be flexible.
It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.
Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Law and justice are from time to time inevitably in conflict. . . . The jury. . . adjusts the general rule of law to the justice to the particular case. Thus the odium of inflexible rules of law is avoided, and popular satisfaction is preserved. . . That is what jury trial does. It supplies that flexibility of legal rules which is essential to justice and popular contentment.
The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation.
Time is inelastic and inflexible. Time is indispensable. No achievement is possible without time.
Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible.
So much in life seems inflexible and unchangeable, and part of the joy of running and especially racing is the realization that improvement and progress can be achieved.
To accuse me of being too inflexible is poppycock.
Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.
Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.
Only when we see that the way of God's law is absolutely inflexible will we see that God's grace is absolutely indispensable. A high view of the law reminds us that God accepts us on the basis of Christ's perfection, not our progress. Grace, properly understood, is the movement of a holy God toward an unholy people. He doesn't cheapen the law or ease its requirements. He fulfills them in his Son, who then gives his righteousness to us. That's the gospel. Pure and simple.
