Joseph Jackson Quotes

There were a lot of stop signs in my life... People telling you what to do, when to do it, and so on.

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

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow.

Discipline must be maintained.

We must play music quietly, talk quietly, weep in private, because I am the all-powerful Zahir, who lays down the rules and determines the distance between railway tracks, the meaning of success, the best way to love, the importance of rewards.

Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.

People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

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

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.

You can't always let people do their own thing.

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

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.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

I was the law and order.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.