Quotes About Regulation

once you start choosing how people can and cannot express themselves then this opens the door to a very dark room in the corporation from which there's really no escape. Can't they in return police your thoughts, and then your feelings and then your impulses? And, finally, can they police, ultimately, your dream?

the most powerful form of reward is relational. Positive interactions with people are rewarding and regulating. Without connection to people who care for you, spend time with you, and support you, it is almost impossible to step away from any form of unhealthy reward and regulation.

The greatest freedom comes from the greatest strictness.'(Paul Valéry)

A well-regulated militia," Bode added, "like they talk about in the Second Amendment." "Oh," said Shiner. He hadn't read the first one yet.

The first law of bureaucracy is to guarantee its own continuance.

Our technology has produced thalidomide, CFCs, Agent Orange, nerve gas, pollution of air and water, species extinctions, and industries so powerful they can ruin the climate of the planet.

There is no question that a society that sets out to control its citizens' use of drugs sets out on the slippery path to totalitarianism.

The privatisation of the symbolic sphere is a strictly relative affair, not least if one thinks of the various Victorian contentions over science and religion, the culture industry, the state regulation of sexuality and the like. Today, one of the most glaring refutations of the case that religion has vanished from public life is known as the United States. Late modernity (or postmodernity, if one prefers) takes some of these symbolic practices back into public ownership.

Trevor wondered if anyone in the outside world could even guess at the horror of working in the Planning Department

Well, I'm sorry to have to tell you, sir, that your polar ice caps are below regulation size for a planet of this category, sir.

but William felt in his bones that you couldn't run a city on the basis of what the Watch liked. The Watch would probably like it if everyone spent their time indoors, with their hands on the table where people could see them.

Governments govern, but prime ministers and presidents do not personally turn up in people's homes to tell them how to run their lives, because of the mortal danger this would present. There are laws instead.

Oh, don't be absurd, man.' The Prime Minister sat back in his chair. 'Come on. We can't just ban a thing because we can't control it.' The minister responsible for health and safety looked startled. 'I don't see why not. It's never stopped us before.

Political correctness is often the attempt to make sentimentality socially obligatory or legally enforceable.

Political correctness is the means by which we try to control others; decency is the means by which we try to control ourselves.

Men are still led by instinct before they are regulated by knowledge

In many areas, the E.U. regulates to help the worst sort of giant corporate looters defending their position against entrepreneurs. Post-Brexit Britain will be outside this jurisdiction and able to make faster and better decisions about regulating technology like genomics, AI and robotics.

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

In track and field, a lot of people don't make a lot of money, so if you're a lower name you might just get run over by USADA because they're just looking to get people out of the sport.

Law is just one public institution, but it is a cornerstone of society. When law goes, everything goes.

We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system.

We should not use the heavy hand of government more than it is justified.

I believe one of the main roles of Government is to keep our economy free and fair.

I'd be all for everybody keeping their sidearms if they're in the military and on a military installation. That's something we need to get back to.