Shelley Fabares Quotes

I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands.

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

I think we are all programmed to please as we grow up.

I was raised to please people in authority, and I'd also come from a sheltered boarding school, so I was very naive and young for my years.

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

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

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

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

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.

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.

When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with which my cousin Brenda, a year and a half younger, accepted her mother's definition of her as someone who needed to go to bed at six-thirty and finish every bite of three vegetables, one of them yellow, with every meal.

Since I was 9, I'd been told what to say, what to think.

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects.

Those who know the least obey the best.

I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.

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

Without respect of my private will, you will give me that counsel you think best.

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.

Very well; whatever you say is necessary must be done.

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

We must form men so that they can only will what we wish them to will.

Conformity--the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don't go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.