Quotes about Compliance

The other men came in and somehow Lou got the same order across to them. We all went to comply—like so many dumb sheep.

To serve an ambassador who was despotic toward his subordinates and servile toward those of a higher social rank.

All god wants us to do is do what he asks us to do.

True obedience is true freedom.

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

No. I am complying with the law—to the letter. Your law holds that my life, my work and my property may be disposed of without my consent. Very well, you mAy now dispose of me without my participation in the matter. I will not play the part of defending myself, where no defense is possible, and I will not simulate the illusion of dealing with a tribunal of justice.

When Helen's father compliments Annie on the fact that she has taught Helen the rudiments of discipline, Annie, discouraged, answers: ". . . to do nothing but obey is—no gift, obedience without understanding is a—blindness, too.

If there's not enough guilt in the world, we must create it. If we teach a man that it's evil to look at spring flowers and he believes us and then does it —we'll be able to do whatever we please with him. He won't defend himself. He won't feel he's worth it. He won't fight. But save us from the man who lives up to his own standards. Save us from the man of clean conscience. He's the man who'll beat us.

It's not the things I don't understand about the Bible that bother me; it's the things I understand with perfect clarity and don't comply with that keep me up at night.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.