Quotes About Compliance

You're supposed to be cooperating." "I am cooperating." "Wear the hat." "I'm not wearing the hat.

Allison was a born conformer, a person who believed in doing the "right thing," being responsible, not making too many waves.

I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.

A fine is a tax for doing something wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right.

IRS: We've got what it takes to take what you've got.

Aries: "I was going to do that but then you told me to."

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.

Representative Fiorello La Guardia responded, "I maintain this law will be almost impossible of enforcement. And if this law fails to be enforced-as it certainly will be, as it is drawn-it will create contempt and disregard for law all over the country.

A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.

The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records to the government, to explain his expenses, to fear conviction for a harmless accounting error. Compliance wastes billions of dollars. It penalizes savings and creates an enormous drag on the U.S. economy. It is incompatible with a free society, and we aren't libertarians if we tolerate it.

Absolutely every government regulation is enforced by violence. If you've never seen that violence, it's because you've been careful, obedient, or lucky.

I respect every way in which you are a troublemaker, now get up and do what your mother says.

If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much less driving.

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Yawn. String-on-a-stick. Fine. I'll come out and chase it to make you happy.

It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience.

It doesn't take much to make the daily round with one's employer work smoothly. A couple of 'yessirs' when you know that 'not on your life' is the thing to say. A few expressions of doubt about things you've spent your life perfecting. Forgetting to make use of the information that negates his hastily formed but deliciously convenient theories. It doesn't take much but it takes about 98.5 per cent more than I've ever considered giving

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

The Librarian has spoken, sally! We Dare Not Disobey!

Socialization is not primarily cognitive. We are not persuaded rationally not to pee in the living room; we are required not to. We then rationalize and obey this rule even when no authority figure lurks to enforce it.

There it was, written down for her to follow: how to take that precocious mind and learn to be like everyone else.

Break the character and independence of your man and you will have an obedient trooper.

I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.