Quotes About Compliance

Propaganda is what gives us the freedom to do as we are told.

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

We're not lawbreakers, we're law-abiding, and intend to stay that way.

Learn the rules. And play by the rules.

An advice is truly valuable when people not just give it their ears but also their obedience.

Freedom to do as we're told under the law!

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!

It's a simple world for her. A curtain fluttering - that's how she is - lives, moves - obediently, yet with every appearnace of freedom and caprice.

They will preach what we want them to preach," said Hitler's memo. "If any priest acts differently, we will make short work of him. The task of the priest is to keep the Poles quiet, stupid, and dull-witted.

metrics often foster compliance with words rather than with intent.

Those who surrender obey. But not all who obey surrender. It is quite easy to obey God for the wrong reasons. What God desires is submission of our heart and will, not simply compliance in our behavior.

Compliance with legitimate authority was also apparent in the strange case of the "rectal ear ache" (Cohen & Davis, 1981). A doctor ordered eardrops for a patient suffering infection in the right ear. On the prescription, the doctor abbreviated "place in right ear" as "place in R ear." Reading the order, the compliant nurse put the required drops in the compliant patient's rectum.

Fearing a court martial for disobedience, some of the soldiers at My Lai participated in the massacre. Normative influence leads to compliance, especially for people who have recently seen others ridiculed or who are seeking to climb a status ladder (Hollander, 1958; Janes & Olson, 2000).

It's not just that some people get to break the rules—it's that loyalty to the organization is to some degree measured by one's willingness to pretend this isn't happening.

I am using the term "box tickers" to refer to employees who exist only or primarily to allow an organization to be able to claim it is doing something that, in fact, it is not doing.

the more we allow aspects of our everyday existence to fall under the purview of bureaucratic regulations, the more everyone concerned colludes to downplay the fact (perfectly obvious to those actually running the system) that all of it ultimately depends on the threat of physical harm.

the Tanakh itself requires genuine obedience to emerge from faith

The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.

We aim to please... You aim too, please.

I don't have to explain or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.

It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.

If we were a dog and God owned us, the cops would come and take us away.

God leads His people whether they are obedient or rebellious, but His leading is far more pleasant when they obey.