Quotes About Regimentation

I don't think I'm conscious of most of the things I've drawn from football, because they're so ingrained in me now... understanding that the discipline and the routine and the regimentation to be successful.

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers. . . call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.

Restaurant kitchens are highly pressurised environments, with lots of young men, and that means one thing: testosterone. It's not brutal - it's military. It is regimented, tough. People are put into compartments and have to do exactly what they're told or the whole thing falls apart.

Self-appointed defenders of freedom seem to know nothing of the loss of liberty attendant upon seriously adverse economic conditions. No regimentation is more cruel than that of extreme poverty. The cramped and barren lives of millions of sharecroppers in the southern states, the deplorable conditions in some of the coal-mining areas, the slum districts in almost any large city, are a pitiful contradiction to our boasted 'inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The invention of reliable and recognizable timepieces—clocks and bell towers—liberated workers from the bondage of piecework, which entails regimentation to count the pieces and favors quantity over quality, slavery over free labor.

Up, then, would come Mrs General; taking all the colour out of everything, as Nature and Art had taken it out of herself;

Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies.

We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women.

The overwhelming majority of Germans did not seem to mind that their personal freedom had been taken away, that so much of their culture had been destroyed and replaced with a mindless barbarism, or that their life and work had become regimented to a degree never before experienced even by a people accustomed for generations to a great deal of regimentation.

To sum up these three years: Personally, they have not been unhappy ones, though the shadow of Nazi fanaticism, sadism, persecution, regimentation, terror, brutality, suppression, militarism, and preparation for war has hung over all our lives, like a dark, brooding cloud that never clears.

Die Glocke reißt Gedankengänge ab in der Schulstunde, schneidet Plaudereien in der Pause auseinander, trennt Freundinnen im Garten, macht Herzklopfen vor unangenehmen Schulstunden, reißt einem die Tasse vom Mund beim Frühstück. Die Glocke ist Befehl. Unpersönlicher, gnadenloser, ewig gleichbleibender Ordner eines ereignislosen Daseins.

a species used to strict patterns of inherited hierarchy.

It was a costume fit for an age which had begun by proudly proclaiming its lack of regimentation and ended railing at its own disarray.

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

When people are more numerous and living fuller lives, they become more difficult to regiment and control.