Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either.

I follow the roles.

There will always be a rule. There will be people who break the rules. There will be consequences. We fundamentally think these things will be true for a time. The question becomes, What are the consequences? Who enforces the consequences? What are the worst consequences?

The rules are there for a reason.

Obviously, flagrant things have to be called. There are rules. You have got to play to the rules, no question.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

There are .. two choices: obedience to institutional authority or radical dissent from it.

If we don’t enforce the regulations we have, these conversations are useless.

Having rules means that sometimes people break them, and that means punishment.

How far do you go in following orders? So many people use it as an excuse, right? 'I was following orders.' But what does that mean?

You have to abide by the regulations that the regulators insist on. This is not a philosophical divide - it's a fact of life.

Whatever the rules are, we have to follow them. I have no problem with it.

Everybody knows if you have the rules, you need to follow the rules and do exactly what you need to do.

People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

The era of 'anything goes' is gone for ever.