William Goldman Quotes

Those who know the least obey the best.

The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.

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

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

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

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

Do what you're told, and everything will be all right.

Baseball regards us as sheep.

If they can talk to you over a secure telephone line, then you have to do what they want.

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

He who must serve me, must do as I command. He who cannot do this, or who comes full of new ideas, may go his way. If he does not, I shall send him.

Anticipatory obedience teaches authorities what is possible and accelerates unfreedom.

Obedience is the key to every door.

Obedience to authority saves many skins

Discipline must be maintained.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly .

Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We are all of us self-important, which never produces any work. Great enterprise, boundless courage, tremendous energy, and, above all, perfect obedience; these are the only traits that lead to individual and national regeneration. These traits are altogether lacking in us.

Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

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

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.