Quotes About Compliance

Every parent knows that delayed obedience is really disobedience.

Because school has always been a matter of getting it right, of scoping out what "rightness" means to the teacher and then providing this.

You suppose that you could walk around, but your feet tell you that the map leads directly through the briar wall, and you can't stray from the path that has been laid out for you. Remember what happened to the little girl, your great-grandmother, in her red woolen cape. Maps protect their travelers, but only if the travelers obey the dictates of their maps. This is what you have been told.

When you were trying to enforce law and order, it was difficult to explain that the rules did not actually apply to you personally.

Soms zou ik ook wel een opvliegend karakter willen hebben,' zei Philip. 'Dat houdt de mensen in beweging. Maar iedereen weet dat ik altijd redelijk ben, daarom word ik nooit zo snel gehoorzaamd als een prior die onverwachts woedend kan uitvallen.

She knew how to behave at ceremonies: move slowly, smile at everyone, do what you're told, and if no one tells you what to do, stand still.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

Don't break the rules when you haven't fully figured them out yet.

Obedience is the opener of eyes.

To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures.

They controlled it so tight -- they told those Negroes what time to hit town, how to come, where to stop, what signs to carry, what song to sing, what speech they could make, and what speech they couldn't make; and then told them to get out town by sundown. And everyone of those Toms was out of town by sundown. Now I know you don't like my saying this. But I can back it up. It was a circus, a performance that beat anything Hollywood could ever do, the performance of the year.

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

Nothing is more frightening than a law that has never been enforced. When the authorities want to throw someone in jail, all they have to do is suddenly arrest him for breaking a law that no one has bothered to obey yet.

blind obedience and unquestioning discipline.

You'll do for me," you tell him. "If you do as you're bloody told." "I'd rather play for fucking Leeds," he tells you. "You'd fucking fit right in and all," you laugh. "But they don't bloody want you, do they?

Protection of intellectual property is clearly not the only, or perhaps even the main reason for Monsanto's strategy in threatening to bring thousands of farmers into court. The purpose is to generate fear, and hence, compliance, in order to force the purchase of more GM seed. — E. ANN CLARK, PLANT AGRICULTURIST

You MUST take your pills. If you fail to take your pills, every single person in your dormitory will be PUNISHED for all ETERNITY

I stopped at a red light, feeling foolish as always for stopping at an intersection at an hour when the streets are deserted, just because a colored lightbulb told me to.

John ducked casually across some DO NOT DUCK CASUALLY ACROSS THIS TAPE tape

That's through intelligence, not through ignorance, believe me. Because some of the things that they're asking you to do [in the Army] and be politically correct about are ridiculous.

Acting after being asked is compliance. Acting without being asked is kindness.

El objetivo número tres, consistente en lograr que el público haga algo o deje de hacerlo

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.

How in the world," Georgie demanded, "do you ever make them let you do all these things? I stuck in three innocent little thumb-tacks to-day, and Peters descended upon me bristling with wrath, and said he'd report me if I didn't pull them out." "We never ask," explained Patty. "It's the only way.