“A wise man rules his passions, a fool obeys them.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 49
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.”
Source: Let Me be a Woman
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“When I obey a rule, I do not choose.
I obey the rule blindly.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein book Philosophical Investigations
§ 219
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
Don Marquis (1878–1937) American writer
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Context: Infancy is not what it is cracked up to be. The child seems happy all the time to the adult, because the adult knows that the child is untouched by the real problems of life; if the adult were similarly untouched he is sure that he would be happy. But children, not knowing that they are having an easy time, have a good many hard times. Growing and learning and obeying the rules of their elders, or fighting against them, are not easy things to do.
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
1920s, Law and Order (1920)
““Can you read?”
I nodded.
“Rules are posted over there. You got two choices. Obey them. Or be dead.””
Glen Cook book The White Rose
Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 28, “To the Barrowland” (p. 576)
Simon Sinek (1973) British/American author and motivational speaker
Source: Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
Saul D. Alinsky (1909–1972) American community organizer and writer
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971), p. 128
“Obeying the rules might be smart, but it's not as nearly as much fun.”
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: Simply Irresistible