Quotes About Regulation

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.

Happy hour is slightly different in the Soviet Union. There are no ice cubes or orange-peel twists in the vodka. Also, it lasts all day.

I have had a long tug-of-war going on with the FDA, in particular, and with other regulatory agencies, and it has nothing to do with vaccines.

The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety.

If international law is, in some ways, at the vanishing point of law, the law of war is, perhaps even more conspicuously, at the vanishing point of international law.

A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.

Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality.

Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.

A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

It's a lot more comfortable to live in a world where the rules still apply.

Sarcasm. Because beating the crap out of people is illegal.

If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.

Fences can be prisons, in a way. They're necessary for those incapable of learning restraint, but they diminish life.

In Chapter 14, you can find out how the cell cycle is regulated and what happens when it goes awry.)

This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism.

En medio del desorden la ley debe prevalecer o la humanidad perecerá.

Generally when a man in uniform has something unusual brought to his attention, his instinct is to stop it.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

For more than a decade, Novartis spent hundreds of millions of dollars on so-called speaker programs, including speaking fees, exorbitant meals, and top-shelf alcohol that were nothing more than bribes to get doctors across the country to prescribe Novartis's drugs.

I'm not speaking in favor of killing innovation. I'm speaking in favor of centrist use of the market, which involves necessarily a considerable degree of regulation. Markets by themselves will get themselves inevitably into inequality and into their own destruction. It will happen again and again.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

In a free market and in the absence of planning, developers will flatten every hillside, fill every canyon, obliterate every endangered species, and pave over every wetland they think they can make a buck on.