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Quotes About Compliance

Chain of command knows no age restrictions, he once told Connor. You could be six, but if you were my superior, I'd still do as I was told.
~ Neal Shusterman
Have a mint," she said. "No thanks," Mitch told her. "I SAID, HAVE A MINT." And Mitch, like a weak mind manipulated by the Force, obeyed.
~ Neal Shusterman
Firsat bulup ona bir insanin polis uniformasini uzerine gecirdigi andan itibaren mevcut duzenin maasli bekcisi oldugunu anlatamazsin.Polisin isi degisimi engellemektir. Gidisattan hosnutsaniz butun polisler iyidir,degilseniz kotudur.
~ Charles Bukowski
Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
People." I pause for a moment. "Remind me of Peel's Principles of Policing, again?" Ramona looks blank. Mhari looks skeptical. "Policing by consent," I hint. "Come on, the basic rules we play by? Minimum use of force to achieve compliance, the performance of a police force is judged best by how little crime takes place on their watch rather than by how many heads they kick in, that kind of thing?" "Since
~ Charles Stross
Very good, Mr. Howard. They were the ones who didn't try to second-guess their commanding officer. Can I suggest that in future you take a leaf from their book and refrain from poking your nose into things you have been told do not concern you? Or at least learn not to be so predictable about it." "Ah—" "Go away before I mock you," he says, sounding distantly amused. I
~ Charles Stross
People." I pause for a moment. "Remind me of Peel's Principles of Policing, again?" Ramona looks blank. Mhari looks skeptical. "Policing by consent," I hint. "Come on, the basic rules we play by? Minimum use of force to achieve compliance, the performance of a police force is judged best by how little crime takes place on their watch rather than by how many heads they kick in, that kind of thing?
~ Charles Stross
We will just resent whatever cost and inconvenience the regulations impose, totally unaware that those precautions may have prevented a debt crisis or a real estate crash.
~ Charles Wheelan
Sadism dominates the culture. It runs like an electric current through reality television and trash-talk programs, is at the core of pornography, and fuels the compliant, corporate collective. Corporatism is about crushing the capacity for moral choice and diminishing the individual to force him or her into an ostensibly harmonious collective.
~ Chris Hedges
If you want to fit in, you try to mirror whatever anyone wants from you.
~ Abi Morgan
The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.
~ Nicolas Roeg
Don't get me wrong: I'm overjoyed with my career to date. But perhaps I could have done more. Mostly, I just did whatever the directors told me to do.
~ Norman Wisdom
Los reguladores descubrieron que librarse del dióxido de azufre era tan barato que poca gente estaba dispuesta a pagar demasiado por el derecho a seguir produciéndolo. Al
~ Tim Harford
She was here, and it was now; and as the emperor's instructors had so often drummed into her, the first item of business was to fit into her surroundings. And that meant not looking like an escapee from the medical ward
~ Timothy Zahn
A bureaucrat who said no to everything rarely got in trouble.
~ Tom Clancy
It was worth repeating, because it constituted the First Law of Sentient Ordnance: Thou shalt not blow up the wrong planet. On that point the programmers had been insistent to the point of fussiness. Accordingly
~ Tom Holt
Not surprisingly, the socks remain silent, as was their legal right.
~ Tom Robbins
There was no point in questioning him. Just as long ago, when they ventured hand in hand into unknown territory, Cee accompanied her big brother silently. As annoyed as she was now at her relapse into doing what others wanted, she nevertheless cooperated. This one time, she told herself. I don't want Frank making decisions for me.
~ Toni Morrison
As long as your feet are under my table, you'll do in this house what you are told.
~ Toni Morrison
Stanley Milgram's electric shocks
~ Kevin Dutton
Si quieres que tu hija te tome en serio dilo una vez, solo una vez. Luego date la vuelta esperando que tus palabras sean obedecidas. No hay argumento ni réplica. Todo se expuso con tranquilidad.
~ Kevin Leman
A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.
~ Kevin Mitnick
The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.
~ Kin Hubbard
in these situations, you followed the rules first. You toed the line. You made sure to cross every t and dot every i. And when that didn't work, it was time to bring out the goddamned gators.
~ Kirsten Miller