What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
The problem is that we humans are deep conformists.
Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code - a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people-or, rather, there aren't any right people.
Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.
Conformity is the ape of harmony.
Conformity is an imitation of grace.
Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
