Quotes About Rules

Como señalaba Hayek: «Sostener que debemos planificar de forma deliberada la sociedad moderna porque se ha vuelto demasiado compleja es, por tanto, paradójico, y el resultado de un malentendido total [...]. Lo cierto es, más bien, que podemos preservar un orden de semejante complejidad [...] solo de manera indirecta reforzando y mejorando las reglas que conducen a la formación de un orden espontáneo».

Let no man, therefore, lose heart from thinking that he cannot do what others have done before him; for, as I said in my Preface, men are born, and live, and die, always in accordance with the same rules.

Rules were about averages, not specifics, and since people were conditioned since childhood to accept rules, it was easy to follow them blindly. To trust in the system. It was easier not to worry about random possibilities. It meant that people didn't have to think about potential consequences, and when the sun was shining on Friday afternoons, they could play Frisbee without a care in the world.

For me, prog rock has always been essentially British. It combines all our great and eccentric genius. We are not hung up on categories, rules and classification. We love people who break the mould, challenge us and make us think differently.

I believe the world economy will crash when Russia or China moves to a gold-backed currency. They know that when this thing blows, the old law returns: he with most gold makes the rules.

I think a lot of big musicals close because of the rules they're bound by that make it impossible for them to be efficient.

You can be a Christian. You can be Jew. You can be a Muslim. You can be atheist. This is your own choice. But the law, the constitution, the law of the people is above God's law. So when somebody arrives in Europe, people need to accept those rules.

There are two ways to approach the writing of a mystery novel: adhere to the rules, or break them with glee.

Hinduism especially - in the absence of codified rituals or a book of rules to circumscribe it - has always functioned as part philosophy, part mythology, leaving it open to competing and contradictory interpretations.

There are all these interesting rules about asteroid nomenclature. Once you discover it, you have the right to name it, but there's a catch.

I still see referees officiating based on names on the front and back of jerseys and not based on how the rules are written in the rule book.

When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet; what's the matter with learning the laws of theater from the people who know how to do it?'

Television has been breaking narrative rules.

I feel like Hendrick just plays games in a way with NASCAR. I feel like they always start the year off kind of bad to like show NASCAR that they're being nice and cooperating and following the rules and stuff, and then it gets a couple of months in, and then they start cheating and finding some speed.

The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.

The state has the right to expect entrepreneurs to observe the rules of the game," Putin explained in July 1999.

I'll not have that talk at the table. He nodded and sipped coffee. He'd never fully comprehended what was allowed at the table and what was not.

Dance with me, Sasha. I'm working, Mr. Ferraro, and according to the employee manual, we are not allowed to fraternize with the owners. If this is a test to see if I read the rules, I can assure you, I have. Giovanni and Sasha, Shadow Keeper

The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.

The conventional word that is employed to describe tyranny is "systematic." The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not. (The only rule of thumb was: whatever is not compulsory is forbidden.) Thus, the ruled can always be found to be in the wrong.

Legalism at one extreme (keep all the rules) and license at the other (reject any rules) are both completely wrong answers to the question of how Christians should live.

So how do you preserve such freedom," Zehron countered, "if the state itself coerces the people to follow its rules?

Rather," Soval replied, "the people mutually consent to abide by those rules for their own collective benefit. They ensure their own safety and liberty by agreeing to respect others' safety and liberty—even when that requires making compromises. Absolute, unfettered freedom is only possible for one who lives absolutely alone. When one is part of a community, one must balance one's own freedoms and rights with those of others.