George A. Romero Quotes

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

I follow the roles.

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.

Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

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

It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience.

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 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?

There are important rules in life - like not parking on yellow lines or stealing from your neighbour. But some rules are made to be broken.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

Rules are really weird things, aren't they? I feel like the more I do something, the more I see through rules. I see the reason to ignore it, but at the same time, "That's why they made that rule!"

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

Sometimes when I'm told to use my own discretion, if no one is looking I'll use someone else's. But I always put it back.

I feel like I have always played within the rules. I would never break the rules.

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine.

One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.

I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.

In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.

I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.

n the world, those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.

Discipline must be maintained.

There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.