Jackie Chan Quotes

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

Discipline must be maintained.

There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.

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.

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

Now, there's a desire for order, authority coming from a feeling that society has gone too far to the side of individualism and liberalism.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

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

In being strict, you were able to control.

Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

Whether fighting or spitting, my discipline is unforgiving!

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more of it there must be without.

Today there's law and order in everything. You can't beat anybody for nothing. If you do beat anyone, it's got to be for the sake of order.

There were a lot of stop signs in my life... People telling you what to do, when to do it, and so on.

Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology.

I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.

The rules are there for a reason.

I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow.

Rules that are not stringently upheld are more likely to get broken.

I'm well aware of the rules, and I don't want to play to the edge of them.

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