Quotes About Regulation

The Clean Power Plan sets the first-ever national carbon pollution standards for the power sector, the single-biggest source of carbon emissions in the United States.

I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

I don't think the Internet should be immune to the standing laws of countries.

In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.

Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man

Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.

A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.

All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.

We really must keep under control, and pretty strict control, the area within which 'The Man in Whitehall' knows best.

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.

People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

With no one there to help modulate your feelings, you did a very smart thing as that little boy. You shut them down. Closed a door on them.

Our human brains—in fact, most mammals' brains—are built for co-regulation.

I soon learned that it is always easier for a bureaucrat to say no. They can't get in trouble saying no.

Although French soldiers have a reputation for dash and flamboyancy, in fact their army was heavily regulated, bureaucratic and relied on working practices and traditions dating well back into the 18th century and beyond .

There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal

A film which followed the code of the Hays Office to the strictest letter might succeed in being a great work of art, but not in a world in which a Hays Office exists.

Perhaps a film which strictly and in all respects satisfied the code of the Hays Office might turn out a great work of art, but not in a world in which there is a Hays Office.

And we even recognise the apparent paradox that some limitations to our freedoms have the consequence of making us freer overall.