Chief Joseph Quotes

When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.

Having rules means that sometimes people break them, and that means punishment.

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?

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.

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

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

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.

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.

It is not your great father who does this; but the laws of the country, which he and every one of his people is bound to regard.

Reward and punishment are the twin instruments of power in the State; they must not be revealed to anyone.

He will punish you as a father punishes his disobedient child, unless you do as he desires.

We submit ourselves to rulers only if under rules.

From day one, I told people there are consequences for not abiding by the law.

I follow the roles.

Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology.

The rules are there for a reason.

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.

The first great law is to obey.

Come when you're called; And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you; And you'll never be chid.

People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.

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

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

It's good for you to see your friends arrested. It hardens you. There's no place in our New Order for sentimentalists.

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