Quotes About Compliance

She colored angrily, but took no other notice of that girlish sarcasm, and answered with unexpected amiability... It shall be as you please, Mrs. Chester. I'll give up my place here at once, and attend to the flowers, if you like.

Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order—never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons for the request.

His grandmother had said to him once, smiling slightly, that if you compelled people to behave as if they believed something eventually all but the strongest-willed really did start to believe it, because it was easier on their pride than admitting every moment in the privacy of their soul that they were pretending.

If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each night, renounce sex, and subsist on a diet of raw vegetables, you would find a new golf instructor. However, when gurus make demands of this kind, many of their students simply do as directed.

The way to rise is to obey and please.

Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.

M. Morrel realized that there was no sense in trying to argue in the circumstances: a commissioner wearing his sash is no longer a man but a statue of the law, cold, deaf and dumb.

El señor Morrel comprendió que nada podía intentarse; un comisario con faja no es ya un hombre, es la estatua de la ley, fría, sorda, muda.

His was one of those rare organizations, endowed with an obedient intelligence like that of the dog;

She walks. She talks. She adapts. She has been conditioned to respond to the highest bidder.

Only a year after ratifying the UN Convention against Torture, Clinton thus violated one of its key clauses, indicating that Washington would continue to favor covert operations over compliance with international law.

LAWFUL, adj. Compatible with the will of a judge having jurisdiction. LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.

Unity and respect, it seemed, were only for those who did as they were told.

Because the vast majority of men would far rather be told what to do than make their own choices. Obedience is easy.

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Bing," Manx said, "I thought I told you to put Mr. and Mrs. de Zoet in the spare room!" "Well," Bing said, "they aren't hurting anyone." "No. Of course they're not hurting anyone. They're dead! But that's no reason to have them underfoot either!

He did not hate his wife, but felt for her the kind of affection a man usually reserves for an excitable puppy. Her immediate acceptance of his every opinion and observation was both disheartening and a little hilarious to him. There was not a single criticism he could offer that she would not immediately accept as true. He made a game out of it.

They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Someone is watching you. Or, someone is probably watching you. Or, you feel like someone's watching you. So you follow the rules whether someone's watching you or not.

She made me act normal. Because I was. Because I could. She told me to breathe and sit up. And I did what she asked. Again.