Quotes About Compliance

The coach is the boss at the end of the day. I do whatever he tells me and don't ask questions.

The head coach tells us what to do, and we follow his orders.

We will do whatever the government tells us to do, which is a critically important principle of the Chinese market economy, and there is nothing more for discussion about it.

Now, can some cops be overbearing, rude? Yeah. But we have a process for that. Do what the officer tells you to do, and file a complaint. That's the process. You don't attack a police officer on the street or resist arrest because you think you're being hassled.

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Que dit Keanu Reeves dans Portrait craché d'une famille modèle, déjà ? « Il vous faut un permis pour acheter un chien, il vous en faut un pour conduire une voiture. Nom de Dieu, même pour attraper un poisson, il vous faut un permis ! »

The higher the station of an individual within any organization, the greater the tendency to hew to the company line

better to shoot the messenger than to learn about—and fix—the problems. In contrast to such constructive defiance, I know bosses who employ the opposite strategy to undermine and drive out incompetent superiors. One called it "malicious compliance," following idiotic orders from

To obtain high marks in school often requires a high degree of conformity to conventional ways of looking at the world and people."24

Younger managers learn quickly that, whatever the public protestations to the contrary, bosses generally want pliable and agreeable subordinates, especially during periods of crisis. Clique leaders want dependable, loyal allies. Thos who regularly raise objections to what a boss or a clique leader really desires run the risk of being considered problems themselves and of being labeled "outspoken," or "nonconstructive," or "doomsayers," "naysayers," or "crepehangers.

Rockefeller tended to portray himself as a hard-driving executive who went as far as the law allowed but not an inch further.

You'd have the IRS so far up your ass you'd see them when you brush your teeth.

Instead, like Heisenberg, his priority seemed to be to preserve as much of German science as possible, while complying with all Nazi laws and regulations.

regulations allow for up to ten insect fragments per thirty-one-gram serving.

Why, Mary Ann, what ARE you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!

We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.

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

Dratted women," the colonel muttered, tossing down his napkin and bolting out of his chair. "They don't know how to listen. They don't know how to obey. If the army were made up of them, we'd all be British subjects." Caleb

How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist.

A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).

An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.

Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.

Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.