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Quotes About Regulation

In fact, what is sometimes regarded as an inconsistency in the contemporary right-wing platform—the desire to regulate women's reproductive activity in particular, and sexuality in general, while deregulating everything else—is only inconsistent if you regard women as people. If you regard women as an undifferentiated part of nature, their bodies are just another place a man has every right to go.
~ Rebecca Solnit
How do you even speak of, let alone propose regulation of, [any] category [so] full of internal contradictions? . . . Maybe, like so many other things, it is a language problem.
~ Rebecca Solnit
the world had gone too far in its enthusiasm for moderation and the thing had to be stopped
~ Rebecca West
He detested the inefficiency of unregulated capitalism only less than he dreaded the waste and suffering of a proletarian revolution,' wrote Kingsley Martin, who edited the New Statesman when Keynes was chairman of its publishing company: 'he therefore made it his life's work to save capitalism by altering its nature.
~ Richard Davenport-Hines
Any synthetic intelligence can be independent only within the boundaries of the U.N. regulatory charter. The charter is hardwired into my systems, so in effect I have as much to fear from the police as a human does.
~ Richard K. Morgan
The law of the land is supposed to be obeyed.
~ Richard Kluger
In spring 1907, a Regulation for Women's Education was decreed, which made it official that women should receive education.
~ Jung Chang
Surgido el orden, el hombre ha adquirido el derecho de controlar el sexo y la fuerza bruta, sustituyendo a la naturaleza.
~ K?b? Abe
I dislike being held to a set of rules for no reason other than to create the impression of order, whether it exists or not.
~ Karen Hawkins
Do you think anyone's watching background checks? Mass murderers buy machine guns and enough ammo to take down twenty schools and no one bats an eye.
~ Karin Slaughter
Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state
~ Karl Marx
Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police sticking their nose in.
~ Karl Marx
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
~ Irving Babbitt
National 21 drinking age, huh, what do you think about that? A bunch of malarkey, whatever malarkey is, man, it's a whole bunch of it.
~ Mojo Nixon
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe.
~ Tom Udall
Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
~ William Empson
I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by.
~ Burl Ives
In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.
~ Roy Hattersley
There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.
~ George S. Patton
It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.
~ Ludwig von Mises
There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.
~ Otto von Bismarck
It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
~ Andre Gide
A man is merely to implement the law. He is there not to decide what to implement as we already have the law. We don't have a legislative body.
~ Anjem Choudary