Quotes About Compliance

I love kids. I have kids and grandkids. And I find it very, very hard doing what the law says exactly to do.

What am I supposed to call you?""Your Royal Husbandness. It's required by law, I'm afraid.

I felt that it was getting very late indeed, but I did not say anything, for I felt under obligation to meet my host's wishes in ever way.

Adam nodded.

Unless the punishments are enforced, rules lose all their power.

Luis Carruthers ... takes the seat next to mine which means I'm supposed to take off my walkman

The human race is bound not only by common genetics but also by universal standards of behavior. Those who do not willingly follow the guidelines of civilization can no longer be considered truly human. —Bene Gesserit axiom

To develop a self one must exercise choice and learn from the consequences of those choices; if the only thing you are taught is to comply, you have little way of knowing what you like and want.

you had to settle for what you were given and be grateful.

I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?' If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?

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

They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .

It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.

The grags came down heavily on those who did not conform and seemed not to realize that this was like stamping potatoes into the mud to stop them growing.

There's the basic unwritten rule of witchcraft, which is "Don't do what you will, do what I say.

Nanny Ogg was about to say: What? You mean not compliant and self-effacing like what you is, Esme? But she stopped herself. You didn't juggle matches in a fireworks factory.

It is amazing what people will obey, if a clear and confident voice is used

Family values meant keeping your head down and your voice soft. It meant having dinner on the table by six and your paycheck in his hand every other Friday. It meant keeping secrets that at any time might explode in your face.

There are many sets of eyes watching the world at this time. That is part of your disadvantage. But military conquest will not be sought here because the world is too valuable, and the foreign races who seek to establish themselves here need humanity as their workforce—a compliant and willing workforce—for these foreign races cannot live in this environment for reasons that you would not guess.

Mr. Prendick, do as I instructed, or I will have the significant pleasure of shooting you.

I don't really say too much to my parents. If they ask me to do something I just do it and get it out of the way.

Whatever you want me to play, I'll just do it.

Sometimes when your coach draws something up, you just kind of go with it.

No matter what job I've undertaken, whether it was Glory Kickboxing or Strikeforce or Pride Fighting Championships or Showtime Championship Boxing, you have to play by the rules of the company you work for.