Protocol Quotes

“There's not protocol for falling in love with someone. There's no game plan to tell you when it's appropriate to do certain things, say other things.”

“[S]ocial order displays not the absolute presence or absence of intolerance to difference but a spectrum of intolerance. Each of us bears responsibility to some degree for maintaining these protocols of intolerance, which could not be kept in place if every single one of us did not play our part. From bringing up children ‘appropriately’, to lovingly correcting or punishing their inappropriate behaviour, to making sure we never breach the protocols ourselves, to staring or sniggering at people who look different, to coercive psychiatric and medical intervention, to emotional blackmail, to physical violence-it’s a range of slippages all the way that we seldom recognize.”

“When life belittle and trick you, you will forget protocol...”

“I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency it will be okay.”

“Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.”

“The prerequisites for being in the diplomatic corps are the ability to handle protocol alcohol and Geritol.”

“We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude.”

“Dear family,I am drafting a new laundry protocol for better and more considerate usage of the washing machine”

“Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.”