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Quotes about Compliance

On Camazotz we are all happy because we are all alike. Differences create problems. You know that, don't you, dear sister?
— Madeleine L'Engle
And buxom, which means only obedient, is now made, in familiar phrases, to stand for wanton; because in an ancient form of marriage, before the Reformation, the bride promised complaisance and obedience, in these terms: I will be bonair and buxom in bed and at board.
— Samuel Johnson
No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
— Mark Twain
They belonged to the vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.
— Edith Wharton
Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience. If there be no penalty annexed to disobedience, the resolutions or commands which pretend to be laws will, in fact, amount to nothing more than advice or recommendation
— Alexander Hamilton
Every parent knows that delayed obedience is really disobedience.
— Rick Warren
Obedience unlocks understanding.
— Rick Warren
Yet partial obedience is disobedience.
— Rick Warren
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments.
— GK Chesterton
Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.
— Thomas Watson
Legalism always breeds compliance over purpose.
— Ravi Zacharias