Quotes About Compliance

The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.

It has been reliably established that from 1933 to 1945 millions of innocent people were systematically slaughtered on command. Gas chambers were built, death camps were guarded, daily quotas of corpses were produced with the same efficiency as the manufacture of appliances. These inhumane policies may have originated in the mind of a single person, but they could only have been carried out on a massive scale if a very large number of people obeyed orders.

There is a propensity for people to accept definitions of action provided by legitimate authority

Behavior prior to this rupture is termed obedience. The point of rupture is the act of disobedience.

A man could shoot thirty ducks if it pleased him, and then shoot thirty more the next day, and it was perfectly legal. His hunting partner was likely to be the county sheriff.

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.

In China, much of life involves skirting regulations, and one of the basic truths is that forgiveness comes easier than permission.

Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.

Every law requires a response

I suppose," she said to Paddington as they stepped on the escalator, "we ought really to carry you. It says you're supposed to carry dogs, but it doesn't say anything about bears.

It was a stock answer and I noted that going beyond government requirements when there were no such requirements meant nothing.

I suspected that Judge Leggoe would go along to get along.

Marino Santos y sus hombres resumieron sus funciones en cinco elementos esenciales: 1. Controlar lo que se vende. 2. Controlar cómo se vende. 3. Controlar cómo se planifica. 4. Controlar cómo se construye y se instala. 5. Controlar cómo se controla. Cuando un contratista perdía de vista alguno de estos cinco puntos de control, como los llamaban Marino Santos y sus hombres, el trabajo no finalizaba como se había acordado. Eso no sería

So many problems occur when people fail to be obedient when they are supposed to be obedient, and fail to be creative when they are supposed to be creative. The

Cheese pizzas are the FDA's problem; pepperoni pizzas are supervised by the USDA.

Really, it's brilliant what they have done within the bounds of the regulation. They are much less of a villain than I thought. The system has let down the investor.

is creating problems for bureaucrats who suffer from malignant obedience.

when each infected person infected more than three others, or when the society's rate of compliance fell below 30 percent.

If everyone on Wall Street abided by the rule's spirit, the rule would have established a new fairness in the U.S. stock market.

The Cleese Theory of Convenience. I think, roughly précised, it means that everyone will do only what's most convenient for them – and if you want things done your way you must not appear too agreeable or easy to please, or you will be the victim of other people's desire for convenience.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

I could sit down and give USADA my opinions on it, but I want to say they've done a great job. Guys like me are shining because of USADA.

China's Internet will continue to be policed and controlled, information filtered, sites prohibited, noncompliant search engines excluded, and sensitive search words disallowed. And where China goes, others, also informed by different values, are already and will follow.