Quotes About Compliance

I almost didn't get an A in math, but then Mr. Carlo told me to stop asking "why?" all the time and just follow the formulas. So, I did. Now, I get perfect scores on all my tests. I just wish I knew what the formulas did. I honestly have no idea.

But then Mr. Carlo told me to stop asking why? all the time and just follow the formulas. So, I did. Now, I get perfect scores on all my tests. I just wish I knew what the formulas did.

There are rules you follow here not because you want to, but because you have to

Dealing with cops is like being around a skittish horse: No sudden movements, nothing shiny or loud. Zero jokes.

the nonconformism of complete conformism:

Sometimes it's just easier to go along.

veiled insubordination that he

We told the truth. We obeyed the law. We kept the peace.

Self-fashioning is the work we are all given, and we dutifully comply with the prescription continually to reinvent ourselves and manage our intricate identities. As Zygmunt Bauman has intimated, we may not grasp that to decline this endless work is not an option.

When community standards are enforced, there is constraint and cooperation. When everyone minds his own business and looks the other way, there is freedom and anomie.

When people within a hierarchical order act in ways that negate or subvert that order, we feel it instantly, even if we ourselves have not been directly harmed. If authority is in part about protecting order and fending off chaos, then everyone has a stake in supporting the existing order and in holding people accountable for fulfilling the obligations of their station.35

I went along agreeably until all that was left was agreeability.

Ti, kdo si trvají na jasných rozkazech nebo žádající legislativní opat?ení, nepochopili, že nezáleží na rozkazech, nýbrž na v?li nad?ízeného, a že p?íjemce rozkazu tuto v?li musí dešifrovat a dokonce p?edjímat.

Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad idea.

Julius Tallow gave Nathaniel an unctuous smile. "That's the kind of servant you need, Mandrake," he said. "No glibness, no chatter. Obeys without question. I'd get rid of this smooth-tongued serpent, if I were you." The panther swished its tail. "Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.

The highway cop said, "Walk a straight line." I said, "Well, Officer Pythagoras, the closest you could ever come to achieving a straight line would be making an electroencephalogram of your own brain waves." He said, "You're under arrest. You have the right to remain silent. Do you wish to retain that right?" I thought, "Oooh, a paradox!"

I was in the ROTC program. I remember once I was walking through campus and my instructor grabs me, and he's a real big guy, and yells, "It's been six weeks since I've seen you in camouflage class!" I said, "I'm getting good."

Seguir o no seguir (o quién sabe si en realidad seguir y no seguir): tal podría ser la cuestión que rodea a Bartleby.

Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl

there had been a substantial minority of Germans who had offered aid and support for their Jewish friends and neighbors. In the end, however, the majority of the German population complied with the governmental policies that made Jewish life in Germany ever more precarious and offered no protest against them.

Solitary confinement is one of the punishments most dreaded even by prisoners hardened to physical brutality, and is now a notorious procedure for inducing political compliance. (Conversely, the best of the known weapons against compliance is social organization.)

You seem to fit the part all right. Your technical record is first-class. Your disciplinary record stinks to high heaven.' He eyed his listener blank faced. 'Two charges of refusing to obey a lawful order. Four for insolence and insubordination. One for parading with your cap on back to front. What on earth made you do that?' 'I had a bad attack of what-the-hell, sir,' explained Leeming.

government regulation will continue to pose a risk to PayPal into the foreseeable future.

The regulatory system turned out to be perhaps the greatest obstacle for our young business. Once PayPal became a publicly traded company, regulators seemed willing to pursue their own agendas whenever the laws were murky.