Chris Hayes Quotes

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

I'm not strong-willed, actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do.

If you want to get along, go along.

My style is not to challenge anything.

I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.

I was buttoned up as a kid. I did what I was told and never broke the rules.

I've said, I never thought I rebelled. I never - I don't think I've ever had that period. You know, I just had to do what I had to do. You know, I was a good kid.

I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.

I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.

So far, I've never missed a deadline for a term paper, a review, a manuscript. I perform the mumbo-jumbo of voting with belief in my heart, I've not yet won even a jaywalking ticket, and unlike my father, whom I fault in this respect, I refrain from opting out of jury duty; instead, they mostly kick me out.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

I am pathetically law-abiding.

Baseball regards us as sheep.

I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen.

Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.

Those who go along get along.

Those who know the least obey the best.

I've always taken direction pretty well.

There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance.

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

In the military you do not get points for creativity. You get points for obedience.

I must confess, that if left to act entirely upon my own judgment, I should not have recognized this provisional government …. But I claim no right to set up my own judgment against that of my government, believing strict obedience to the wishes of my government my first and sole duty.

You must absolutely lend yourself to what the court accustomed to doing. All eyes will be fixed on you.

Whatever I have said is in the interest of the system, and it has never been taken amiss.