Quotes About Compliance

The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.

I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time.

My fantasy is that there is a new regulatory body that is in charge of algorithmic auditing.

The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

Je fis comme eux avec cet air naturel d'un libre-penseur dans une église, lequel ne connaît pas la messe, mais se lève quand tout le monde se lève et se met à genoux un peu après que tout le monde s'est mis à genoux.

But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.

I have a natural tendency to go away when told to do so. Do you really want me to?

If you ever look sideways at another man or attempt to refuse me I shall beat you. Got it?

Children always find ways to subvert while they're busy complying. This child's method of subversion? She would achieve success, but she would treat it like a concession she'd been forced to make. For unto whomsoever much is given, of her shall be much required. She came to feel that too much had been required of her. She would have her revenge. She would insist on an inner life regulated by despair.

As Winnicott remarks, social existence, though obviously indispensable for organized human communities, can induce us to regard the world primarily "as something to be fitted in with or demanding adaptation." For Winnicott, this type of social compliance is a form of psychic illness, which suggests that the vast majority of us are unwell much of the time. As he claims, "social health is mildly depressive— except for holidays.

I dig and plough at your command,' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit.

I listened to make sure I was meeting the minimum requirement to stay out of jail, so to speak.

The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.

Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.

There will be no more protests. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia. The voice of Halla. Your voice." "There goes freedom of speech," I said.

Obedience is the path to freedom.

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over the cop looks at it (moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly)... and says, "Here, you can go."

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

I believe we should all pay our tax with a smile. I tried...but they wanted cash.