Walter Bagehot Quotes

I follow the roles.

Just do what you're supposed to.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.

My duty is to obey orders.

Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.

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

I'm fairly obedient. I do what I'm told.

Those who know the least obey the best.

Let a man keep the law,—any law,—and his way will be strewn with satisfactions.

There is no course of life so weak and sotish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

In the military you do not get points for creativity. You get points for obedience.

Those who can, must obey.

When you were under contract, you did what you were told to do.

I grew up very disciplined and doing what I had to do.

I like structure, and I like discipline and people doing the right thing.

The rules are there for a reason.

I've always been kind of a play-by-the-rules girl; I tend to like things structured, predictable, and sometimes even a little boring.

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

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

I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.

From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.

Obedience sums up our entire duty.

Obedience is the key to every door.

Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one The great grey rigid uniform combined Safety with virtue of the sun. Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind.