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Quotes About Compliance

Men are no different from your automata; slip a bloke a piece of paper with the proper figures on it, and he'll do your bidding.
~ Ted Chiang
A dog may understand dozens of commands, but it will never do anything but bark.
~ Ted Chiang
Men are no different from your automata; slip a bloke a piece of paper with the proper figures on it, and he'll do your bidding." The room grew light as the man lit an oil lamp.
~ Ted Chiang
The lesson was clear and I learned it well: blind acquiescence was necessary to gain approval; being yourself only earned condemnation.
~ Tehmina Durrani
I obeyed, but my crime was that I did not look obedient.
~ Tehmina Durrani
For more than a decade, Novartis spent hundreds of millions of dollars on so-called speaker programs, including speaking fees, exorbitant meals, and top-shelf alcohol that were nothing more than bribes to get doctors across the country to prescribe Novartis's drugs.
~ Audrey Strauss
You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.
~ Vladimir Putin
On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing.
~ Julie Harris
Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.
~ Tom Stoppard
Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.
~ Neil Sheehan
My speeding offences (whether caught or not) are always in situations where the speed limit is 30, but I think it's 40. And I'm never doing 40, always a careful 37.
~ Victoria Coren Mitchell
I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.
~ Samuel Alito
We will follow in letter and spirit whatever the RBI rules and guidelines are - whether at the holding company level or individual company level.
~ Ajay Piramal
With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.
~ Samuel Hopkins Adams
Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men.
~ Colin Chapman
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
~ Bobby Jones
The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.
~ Robert Bolt
A Jewish man pulls up to the curb and asks the policeman, "Can I park here?" "No" says the cop. "What about all these other cars?" "They didn't ask!"
~ Henny Youngman
Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.
~ Jacques Ellul
He was tempted to park the SUV illegally, since, according to his calculations, the authorities were not likely to catch up with him and demand payment of the parking ticket before the end of the world, but it seemed that most of the people of Seattle were still obeying the rules and so he did likewise.
~ Neal Stephenson
but it seemed that most of the people of Seattle were still obeying the rules and so he did likewise.
~ Neal Stephenson
Yur heaved a sigh, then continued in a more moderate tone: "Never mind. I see it now. It's some kind of Purpose thing. Above my pay grade. You should have just told me." He drew himself up and saluted. "What are my orders, sir?
~ Neal Stephenson
Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.
~ Ned Vizzini
I thought you were interesting. Why did you do what it said?" "I…" I can't think up a fake answer quickly enough. "I'm a straight guy, you know. So if a girl talks to me or whatever, I'll do exactly what she says." Wait, now: make it a compliment. "Especially if it's a pretty girl." I smile.
~ Ned Vizzini