Melvin Burgess Quotes

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

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.

Baseball regards us as sheep.

The path of freedom is blocked much more by those who wish to obey than by those who wish to command.

We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make ourselves as unthreatning, passive, and compliant as possible.

Follow me," said Karou. As if he could have done anything else.

Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the assumption that they'll do as they're told, and they do.

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions — not so much on account of any natural quality of discretion as because he simply could never think of any questions to ask.

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

Nick, fetch my car, fetch my clothes, sweep the chimney, make my bed, watch my psychopath, fetch my slippers.’ Yeah, I’ll fetch those slippers and stick them someplace real uncomfortable. I swear, my mother should have named me Fido. (Nick)

In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.

The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.

Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.

I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.

A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

Discipline must be maintained.

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.

And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.

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

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine.

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