Sentence examples for mindless rules from inspiring English sources

Are we just victims of government, an alien force sent hither by some sinister, extraterrestrial creature – perhaps Darth Vader — tasked with suffocating us upright earthlings with mindless rules?

None of his novels look particularly kindly upon his fellow man, but Lucky Jim, his first, is driven by a particularly epic disdain for the idiocies, pedantries, mindless rules and unpleasant personal habits with which humanity is cursed.

Humanity might be saved from the threatening and mindless rules of rationality, but those offering alternative forms of reasoning as guides to action, such as GRIT's account based on research into human perception and trust, were branded irrational when they were lined up against algorithmic rationality.

How the car, as a mindless entity, rules over everything, wasting the countryside and cities alike.

The dark underbelly of professionalism is that it can breed a compliance mentality, mindless observance of rules rather than heartfelt fulfillment of the spirit of a profession.

But, slowly, his struggle against rules and mindless power grew to define him.

I admired Mr. Ecceleston's restrained portrait of a man straitjacketed by his political role and his mindless adherence to its rules.

This second principle rules out mindless egalitarianism -- policies that, in the name of the poor, drive down living standards across the board.

The solution, as I argue in The Rule of Nobody (out in April), requires a fundamental rethinking of how law is structured: People need to be accountable for the reasonableness of their actions, not mindless compliance with detailed rules.

Our policy does not surrender the right of the school to determine what is appropriate, but it does promise that the determination will be a matter of discussion leading to reconsideration, not mindless enforcement of a rule.

On the one hand he justifies the affair as political action fighting mindless obedience: "I've broken the rules, all the rules, because someone has to say no".