Sam Donaldson 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.

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

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

I follow the roles.

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

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

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

As a teenager, I was perpetually grounded. I was stubborn rather than rebellious.

Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.