Mahesh Bhatt Quotes

Those who fear men like laws.

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

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

I wasn't a good rule-breaker when I was younger.

He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

I accept reality and dare not question it.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

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

That which is given in submission becomes a medium of defiance.

There are .. two choices: obedience to institutional authority or radical dissent from it.

I've never been able to accept any kind of discipline.

We don't make the rules. We just play by them.

The moment you start asking questions, you become public enemy number one.

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

Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.

Fearing servility, people become servile.

Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority.

The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.