Inflexible Rules Quotes

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

There is not, in the whole compass of human affairs, so noble a spectacle as that which is displayed in the progress of jurisprudence; where we may contemplate the cautious and unwearied exertion of a succession of wise men, through a long course of ages, withdrawing every case, as it arises, from the dangerous power of discretion, and subjecting it to inflexible rules.

I've never been impressed with bureaucratic tradition. I don't like it when the parties come to me and say, 'This is the way that it's always done, judge.' I never found anything in the oath I took or the statutes I was asked to look at that said, 'Judge, stop thinking, because this is the way it was done before.'

Courts and judges are very slow to change. They are reactive organizations.

Bureaucracy is simultaneously the most crippling of Indian diseases and the highest of Indian art forms.

There's so many strict ideas and rules, whether it's from religion or it's just generations and generations.

A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee, which is a great mistake in principle

Nothing is always absolutely so

Few maxims are true in every respect.