Robby Gordon Quotes

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

All of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make your peace with that early, or you end up living your life as a crank and a misfit.

To understand why, submit and apply.

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

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 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.

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

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.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

I accept reality and dare not question it.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

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

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.

Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.

Those who can, must obey.

Conformity--the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

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

I'm not going to kiss any rings from anybody.

I always accept the decisions of the coach.

Questioning authority can hardly be called our national pastime. We even make a philosophy out of fear. Fatalism, destiny, karma... are the favourite cultural holes we hide in when authority flogs us. And what's our tragedy.

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.