Quotes About Compliance

The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.

Only do what your teacher says but not what he does.

There are two kinds of people: those who don't do what they are told, and those who do only that.

To follow good manners willingly is like paving the road and to tell somebody to follow them is like the road which is always in under construction.

Meeting needs and obeying commands are not the same.

How does one become mediocre? By complying with and conforming to one thing today and another tomorrow, as the world dictates, by never contradicting the world and by heeding public opinion"_Page.250

Congress sets the rules and says: "Save all the taxes you can, but play the game according to the rules. If there is an inequity, we'll change the rules.

Two items from two different suppliers met the specifications, yet they were sufficiently different for one to be usable, the other usable only with costly rework, a heavy loss to the plant. The explanation was that one supplier understood what the blocks were to be used for , the other did not - he mere satisfied the specifications.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

Sign by elevator put up by computer geeks in office building: REMEMBER: FIRST YOU PILAGE, THEN YOU BURN. THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY WILL BE SUSPENDED FROM THE RAIDING TEAM. In Mr Perfect

Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.

I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.

I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

whether in battle or in a court of law, or in any other place, he must do what his city and his country order him; or he must change their view of what is just:

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws - Plato

All right, he said. Since you ask so nicely. I wasn't asking. I'm aware of that. The sharp point in my back did make it clear.

There are always a few, Claire, who like being told what to do instead of being required to think. And those are the ones you should fear. That goes equally for humans, I'm afraid. Critical thinking has become a sadly rare skill these days.

How readily the rules of female behavior—gentleness, acquiescence, ever-mindfulness—turned to shackles.

People like her are everywhere these days. When they believe your lie is the truth, when they fail to see that the freedom you claim to champion is in fact slavery disguised, they'll live by whatever rules you imply without realizing they're being obedient.

It was a strategy as old as time. Make people desperate enough and they obeyed.

Damn ye, woman! Will ye never do as you're told?" "Probably not," I said meekly.

Aye, verra good. Now then, if ye'll just put your hands above your head and seize the bedstead—

You must not suggest any hint of scandal, and - just as important - you must not cause jealousy. Be sweet and unassuming, always admire your companions' frocks and dismiss your own, and do not bat your eyes at their sons or brothers, should such be present. […] And as she had no intention whatever of attracting a potential husband, she was extremely popular with the young women of society. (A Fugitive Green)