Terry Pratchett Quotes

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

I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.

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

Those who know the least obey the best.

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

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

Obedience is the key to every door.

The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

My duty is to obey orders.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

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

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

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

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 am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

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

I didn't have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other people told me to do as a person.

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

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

If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.

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