Quotes About Compliance

Un gobierno dispuesto a aplicar estrictamente las leyes, tendría que perseguir a una cantidad imposible de mexicanos. Tendría casi que declararle la guerra a su sociedad.

Las leyes incumplibles, compendios éticos de sueños nacionales, tienen un efecto invisible profundamente corruptor sobre la cultura cívica

On Aditya, such would be unthinkable; on Aditya, everybody respects authority. Whether it's respectable or not.

How difficult is it for us to change our stories by taking "counter-phobic steps" as correctives? How often do we see someone's life devoted to compliance, hoping to curry favor and avoid retribution? How often do we see someone repeatedly miring themselves in bad relationships, hoping to wrest love, security, affirmation at last?

Managers can threaten people with the loss of jobs if they don't get with the program, but threats, power, and position do not earn commitment. They earn compliance.

Conformity produces compliance, not commitment. Unity is essential, and unity is forged, not forced.

guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority. well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.

What are you guys doing? If you anted me to take a shower, all you had to do was pay me ten bucks, like you usually do

The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option

They shouldn't be in here daydreaming and thinking on their own!

By the time we got to Section 6 ("Grounds for Expulsion"), my brain was turning into guacamole, and I'm pretty sure my ears were

Do you guys understand anything about best practices? I know you laugh at me because I follow procedures on everything, but those procedures were created for a reason.

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

Unfortunately, the Obama administration is more interested in furthering its political agenda than in following the law.

Although at the time I didn't realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that might displease those around me. For years, whatever directive I may have issued ended with the phrase, 'If it's all right with you.' If I thought I'd done anything to make someone unhappy, I'd agonize.

The funny thing about any cop uniform is that people will do what you say when you're wearing a cop uniform.

I didn't mind being in school. But I was usually uninspired and always late. I did what I had to, but not more.

We've stated very clearly that no negotiating chapters between the European Union and Turkey will be concluded before the Ankara Protocol is complied with: that's to say before Turkey grants all E.U. member states, including Cyprus, access to its ports.

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

If the United States has to accept the U.N. resolutions, we have to generalize it across the board. We can't just pick and choose where we impose and accept the U.N. resolution and don't accept them. U.N. Resolution 242 is very clear and states very clearly that Israel has to go back to the borders of the pre-war of 1967.

The big producer is going to figure out how to deal with whatever the rules are, but the little guy who is running a few hundred units or maybe feeding 1,500 cattle a year, how will they ever comply with these requirements?

Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.

Some of the worst elements of Guyland rest on the twin pillars of men's silence and women's compliance.

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.