Will Hurd Quotes

A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn't need enforcement.

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

Why have a rule if you're not going to enforce it?

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.

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.

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?

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

People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

Do not have any doubt that I will apply the law over whoever is responsible for not complying with the law.

As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either.

Whether fighting or spitting, my discipline is unforgiving!

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

Today there's law and order in everything. You can't beat anybody for nothing. If you do beat anyone, it's got to be for the sake of order.

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

A rule is a rule.

The rules are there for a reason.

I'm all about penalizing. I've got no issue with penalizing people who are taking over their allotted time.

My parents were very strict and had rules for me and, if ever I was playing outside, I always had a set time to come back in.

Obviously, flagrant things have to be called. There are rules. You have got to play to the rules, no question.

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

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

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.

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.