Quotes About Compliance

recognized that what matters is not the mind but the boot brush, not intelligence but the system, not freedom but drill.

They will breed either dislike or a slave mentality—(Rebellion in War time being out of the question!)

children are trained to want to do as the society says they have to do.

he would carry out the orders and it was bad luck that you liked the people you must do it with.

There was nothing to it, gentlemen. All a man need ever do is obey.

Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance. Excessive monitoring can set the stage for what Stephen Mitchell calls "acts of exuberant defiance.

In return for stopping at a red light, we count on other drivers to do the same thing, and we can drive through green lights. But for lawbreakers we need policemen, and with them, as with supervisors, we introduce overhead.

I strongly advise you, witcher, that if the queen orders you to strip naked, paint your arse blue and hang yourself upside down in the entrance hall like a chandelier, you do it without surprise or hesitation.

And I strongly advise you, witcher, that if the queen orders you to strip naked, paint your arse blue and hang yourself upside down in the entrance hall like a chandelier, you do it without surprise or hesitation.

for nothing is more boring than being forced to play.

Tacit collaboration by millions who bite their lip is even more essential than lip service by thousands of favor seekers. Hence, to stimulate at least passive cooperation, the party strives to give the impression that "everybody" is already on its side. (The Rise of Political Correctness)

We were both dutiful, of course, my mother because she was a dutiful woman: I myself felt less humble but knew that life was only simple when one concurred with the wishes of others. In itself this is a dangerous weakness, but it seemed obligatory at the time.

Whenever Papa said, 'Jump,' I was always the first one in the air.

When I get stopped by the police, I keep my hands on the wheel. I'm not going to move.

It's true: Whenever I see a government rule that could clearly be used to punish people for doing innocuous things, it is never enough for some government official to just assure me that it won't be used that way. Those assurances, after all, aren't binding; they're lip service.

I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.

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

I'm happy to play anywhere, I will play wherever I'm told to play.

I'm a company man. I'll go wherever the UFC wants me to go.

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

Everything happened relatively quickly in our rise to the top. But we were like robots. We were told what to do and we just did it. We didn't have time to look inside ourselves. It was all just a constant whirlwind.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

I will do exactly as the Prime Minister asks me.