Quotes About Compliance

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

Those who know the least obey the best.

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

I was an attorney general. That was - that matters to me, and if you won't obey your own rules, there's no reason to think you'll obey any others.

We will always obey the law. We will follow the rule of law.

Laws are there for a reason, and we have an obligation to follow them.

I try to understand the rules and follow them. And I try to make sure that I'm disclosing my obligations.

Some nice quotes: that in all my illegitimate inroads against the legal letter of the law the article sold must be existent, visible, producible. In that way and by a careful study of city ordinances and train schedules I have kept out of all trouble with the police that a five dollar bill and a cigar could not square.

Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

And Americans always think international laws are for other people anyway

The task of the tyrant is not to compel, but to persuade even the unwilling that compliance better serves their interest than resistance.

You also have to attract the notice of superior officers. You have to be liked. You have to fit in with the system. You have to look like what the officers above you think that officers should look like. You have to think in ways that they are comfortable with.

On peut obliger le peuple à obéir. On ne peut pas le forcer à comprendre.

The Master said, "How could one but comply with what model sayings have to say? But the real value lies in reforming one's ways. How could one but find pleasure in polite language? But the real value lies in drawing out its meaning. What can possibly be done with people who find pleasure in polite language but do not draw out its meaning, or who comply with model sayings but do not reform their ways.

Come and see what books I found you, he said. She followed him implicitly. Books did not matter to her. But he insisted on her approving. She gazed over his arm, not seeing. But she touched him.

Electrical Manufacturers Association. Isn't that so?' 'He agreed it was. I had gotten my first "yes." '"The Electrical Manufacturers Association regulations say that a properly designed motor may have a temperature of 72 degrees Fahrenheit above room temperature. Is that correct?

That's why I'm here to kiss the corporate ass. I don't kiss everybody's.

The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.

Any action which lacks in obedience is a fall, and any act of disobedience is rebellion.

Time to paint your but white and run with antelope-in English- Stop arguing and do as your told.

The duty hardest to fulfil, To learn to yield our own self-will.

Our laws as we support them now are slow, wasteful, cumbrous systems, which require a special caste to interpret and another to enforce; wherein the average citizen knows nothing of the law, and cares only to evade it when he can, obey it when he must.