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Quotes About Compliance

Perhaps a film which strictly and in all respects satisfied the code of the Hays Office might turn out a great work of art, but not in a world in which there is a Hays Office.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
All these nervous people, from the unemployed to the public figure liable at any moment to incur the wrath of those whose investment he represents, believe that only by empathy, assiduity, serviceability, arts and dodges, by tradesmen's qualities, can they ingratiate themselves with the executive they imagine omnipresent, and soon there is no relationship that is not seen as a 'connection', no impulse not first censored as to whether it deviates from the acceptable.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
When you are harried, browbeaten, cajoled, bullied, pursued, threatened, bribed and surveyed by the state and its agencies, you have little inclination left over for obedience: least of all obedience to what one judge called the unenforceable. You have already paid your dues to society. Society can now look after itself. In the small sphere left to you, you will do exactly what you please, without regard to anyone else.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
No man is above the law and no man below it.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Let these innocent people be careful not to invest in corporations where those in control are not men of probity, men who respect the laws; above all let them avoid the men who make it their one effort to evade or defy the laws.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall."
~ Thomas Carlyle
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I will admit I am a little bit of a line fudger. I will change the line a bit to make it feel better in my mouth. That is something they'll allow you to do on 'Veep' unless it's a particular joke where they're like, 'No, it just sounds better like this.' But with a lot of network shows, the script is law; you cannot change it all.
~ Brian Huskey
There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
~ Billy Sunday
Whatever the rules are, we have to follow them. I have no problem with it.
~ Hima Das
2005 study of British chiropractors found that 77 per cent did not seek informed consent.
~ Nick Cohen
A democracy is a system in which you are free to do whatever you like as long as you do what we tell you.
~ Noam Chomsky
stupid orders for years and years—that's the way I did it, for example. Like, you're told by some stupid teacher, "Do this," which you know makes no sense whatsoever, but you do it, and if you do it you get to the next rung, and then you obey the next order, and finally you
~ Noam Chomsky
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~ Nora Roberts
Once people decide they want you to do something, they don't really care what your qualifications are.
~ Chuck Klosterman
I want your surrender, not your resistance.
~ Claire Thompson
kneel back." Jess obliged, lifting herself upright and then leaning back on her arms, which were extended straight down behind her.
~ Claire Thompson
Floor," he said instead. It took her a moment to react. Then, with a small nod, she lay face down on the mat and crossed her wrists behind her back.
~ Claire Thompson
This isn't a game. If you sign on, your body will no longer be your own. Modesty has no place, none whatsoever, in a slave's repertoire. You will do as you're told, when you're told, or be punished. If this isn't something you think you can handle, you'd better face that right now.
~ Claire Thompson
During his term at Nickel, the Mexican boy sidestepped the squabbles that embroiled the rest of them, the uncounted disputes over psychological turf and endless encroachments. His constant dorm reassignments notwithstanding, Jaimie kept a quiet profile and conducted himself in accordance with the Nickel handbook's rules of conduct—a miracle, since no one had ever seen the handbook despite its constant invocations by the staff. Like justice, it existed in theory.
~ Colson Whitehead
Above all others, that was the lesson that had been beaten into her. Follow orders. You are nothing. A machine cog that either performs its function or is torn out and replaced.
~ Vince Flynn
As for himself, when he went to go to a party, as one was sometimes obliged to, from a wish not to give offence, he walked into the middle of the room, said 'Ha! Ha!' as loud as ever he could, considered he had done his duty, and went home.
~ Virginia Woolf
I love being bossed by you, but every game has its rules.
~ Vladimir Nabokov