Quotes About Compliance

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

How you doing?" he asked. "How's everything?" "Fine, thank you," I said, turning my bracelet on my wrist. I felt shy, and it made me uncomfortable. "You always say that," he said. "That's what I'm supposed to say.

By the end we were lobotomised of all ability to think for ourselves. We were trained to live by instruction and learned to live without thought. The whole set-up meant no one could flourish as an individual – which was exactly the point. We were homogenised for the ease of others.

No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.

You can't miss your schedule. Every morning, you're supposed to stick your right arm in this contraption in the wall. It tattoos the smooth inside of your forearm with your schedule for the day in a sickly purple ink. 7:00—Breakfast. 7:30—Kitchen Duties. 8:30—Education Center, Room 17. And so on. The ink is indelible until 22:00—Bathing

I give up, sweetheart. Just answer the questions and try not to let the audience see how openly you despise them.

If history teaches you anything, it's how to make the unwilling comply.

law of District Thirteen. As would her own. Thank you." In other words, I step out of line and we're all dead.

Remember, we specifically asked you to leave your hair alone.

Is that the standard protocol here?" asks the Head Peacekeeper. "Yes, sir," Purnia says, and several others nod in agreement. I'm sure none of them actually know because, in the Hob, the standard protocol for someone showing up with a wild turkey is for everybody to bid on the drumsticks.

No. Shut up and eat your pears,

All the devil asks is acquiescence; not conflict, not struggle. Acquiescence.

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

Agencies and the executive branch need to enforce the law. They don't need to fill in the spaces if Congress doesn't act.

The best slave is someone you overpay and who knows it, terrified of losing his status.

Many are forced by peer and social pressures to do so

It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.

When men seek only to be trampled upon, it were a pity to deny them a favor so easily granted - and so well deserved!

They will find whatever button will make you dance, and dance you will, no matter how hideous the tune.