Quotes About Compliance

Obedience is the precondition to totalitarianism, and the precondition to obedience is fear.

Everything I know about passive resistance I learned from Micheline. She always appeared to be doing exactly as she was told, but everything she did took twice as long as it should have.

It's easier to acquiesce. Everyone does, they tell him.

Peace cannot exist in that society where their is no justice, equality and obedience of law.

The good man signed the papers with the innocence of a child who does what his mother orders without question.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everyone thinks they're an exception to the rules

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

My main problem with cops is that they do what they're told. They say 'Sorry mate, I'm just doing my job' all the fucking time.

If you're going to play the game properly you'd better know every rule.

After that I behaved myself very good. I sat up real straight. And I did all my work. Work is when you use your brain and a pencil.

Little attention was paid, because the German people, no matter how hungry, remained obedient.

Life is so much easier when you just give people what they expect.

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it; you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

My character on 'Veep' doesn't have an ounce of rebellion.

Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.

We must respect the referee every time.

If you're going to advance as a referee and make that $75,000 to $100,000 a year in the playoffs, you're going to give the league what they want. Because they are grading you.

I would say that as a government employee, I am subject to the Hatch Act.

I wouldn't want to get Shaq's mom mad, I'll tell you that much. If she told me to do something, I would do it in a heartbeat. I wouldn't want her mad at me. That woman is serious.

I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told.

I have obeyed the law. I have nothing to hide.