Quotes About Regulation

Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

rotten fruits and vegetables n. distressed produce sewage plant n. wastewater conveyance facility sewage sludge n. 1. regulated organic ingredients 2. bioslurp 3. organic biomass Some people may call the residue of treated sewage "sludge," but to John Gonzales of the Reno-Sparks, Nevada, sewage treatment plant it's "organic biomass." 4. biosolids It might look like sludge to you, but others call it "biosolids." 5. regulated wastewater residuals

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like. Edward, First Baron Thurlow

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.

It was not the British government that began seizing great chunks of India in the mid-eighteenth century, but a dangerously unregulated private company headquartered in one small office, five windows wide, in London, and managed in India by a violent, utterly ruthless and intermittently mentally unstable corporate predator – Clive.

In this way the EIC prefigured by 300 years the response of many modern corporates when faced with the regulating and taxation demands of the nation state: treat us with indulgence, they whisper, or we take our business elsewhere.

Freedom to do as we're told under the law!

All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.

If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors. In

there are yet mixed in our institutions mediaeval theories of protection, regulation, and authority, and

The whole system of social regulation by boards, commissioners, and inspectors consists in relieving negligent people of the consequences of their negligence and so leaving them to continue negligent without correction. That

They seem to think that interference is good if only they interfere. In

men who are taught to expect Government inspectors to come and take care of them lose all true education in liberty. If

Some people have resolved to be teetotalers, and they want a law passed to make everybody else a teetotaler. Some people have resolved to eschew luxury, and they want taxes laid to make others eschew luxury. The

The less government we have the better—the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character, the growth of the individual. . . . —Politics Ralph Waldo Emerson C.E. 1844

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.

Ultimately a regulation is a signal of design failure...it is what we call a license to harm: a permit issued by a government to an industry so that it may dispense sickness, destruction, and death at an "acceptable" rate.

But ultimately a regulation is a signal of design failure. In fact, it is what we call a license to harm: a permit issued by a government to an industry so that it may dispense sickness, destruction, and death at an "acceptable" rate.

The law's not about justice. It's a system we've put in place because we can't have justice.

The idea that commons can set and enforce limits on usage also seems improbable because it rejects the idea of humans having unbounded appetites. Ostrom