Blind Compliance Quotes

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

Because I started at such a young age, I went in with a 'take what comes, do what I'm told' approach.

Some coaches prefer players who will just do whatever he tells them to. It's like, if you're at school with a load of 10-year-old boys and you tell them to jump, everyone will start to jump. But the intelligent boy will ask, 'Why should I jump? Why?' That can be difficult for a lot of coaches, and I understand that.

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

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.

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

The only thing that isn't free is you. You do as you're told. You sit in your seat until they say 'Stand'. You stay put til they say 'Go'. Maybe that's the way you like it. It's easy. It's all there. You don't have to think about. You don't even have to feel it.

When the anointed say that there is a crisis this means that something must be done—and it must be done simply because the anointed want it done.

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.

The power to command frequently causes failure to think.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

Fundamentally, adopting rules without any estimate of the impact is the height of arbitrary decision-making.