622 Quotes About Rules

Error of omission begets new rules.

Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July.

...legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a voice--that if they speak up, they will be heard. Second, the law has to be predictable. There has to be a reasonable expectation that the rules tomorrow are going to be roughly the same as the rules today. And third, the authority has to be fair. It can't treat one group differently from another.

Let us listen to the needs of our inner child that is being tamed and imprisoned by the rules of a grown-up world. ("Going back to yesterday" )

விதிகளும் அறவுணர்வும் எப்போதும் பொருந்திப் போவதில்லை. விதிகள், சமமான தோற்றத்தை உருவாக்க நினைப்பவை. அறவுணர்வு, சமமற்றவற்றின் நியாயத்தைப் பற்றிநிற்பவை.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

Rules help us live our liveswhen we lose the will to do it on our own

No one rules if no one obeys

It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersection, no fish, and no ducks. OK?(Getting Control of the Frontier, Gainsville Sun, March 22, 1995)