Quotes About Regulation

The trouble with law is lawyers.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

The law is a horrible business.

question by drawing on classical social theory. He understood societies to be established through a form of social contract and to be maintained by individuals' willingness to subordinate personal desires to the regulation of the laws.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Law and order are always and everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Je weiter eine konkrete Tat entfernt ist, umso mehr ist dem Staat erlaubt, um sie zu verhindern.

Der Präventionsstaat muss [...] dem Bürger immer mehr Freiheiten nehmen, um ihm dafür Sicherheit zu geben.

Prävention, die das Recht konsumiert, hat den Zug zu Totalität und Exzessivität.

In einem maßlosen Staat [...] gibt es vielleicht ein wenig mehr Sicherheit, aber ganz sicher sehr viel weniger Freiheit.

While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

the problem was not people but the law, which was discouraging and preventing people from being more productive.

There are more English books printed in Antwerp than in London, but those who print without a licence are branded, sometimes an eye is gouged out or a hand cut off. And informers are everywhere. Even, no doubt, amongst our own merchants.

Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.

After spending months living in the orderly dorms of Wallingford, where they give you a Saturday detention if your room doesn't pass semi-regular inspections, I feel the old conflicting sense of familiarity and disgust.

I did not know that bureaucracy could send its claws into our very coffins

A quite rare but nevertheless important event before gastrulation in mammalian embryos, including humans, is the splitting of the embryo into two, and identical twins can then develop. This shows the remarkable ability of the early embryo to regulate and develop normally when half the normal size, just like the Driesch experiment. It also makes clear that the early embryo should not be thought of as a human being as it can still develop into two people.

She thought it was illegal to watch television when the sun was shining.

Net neutrality would require that every search engine produce an equal number of results that satisfy every disagreement about [every] issue.... Just think of it as Fairness Doctrine for the Internet. I'm not making this up.

The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.

A general government shall do all those things which pertain to it, and all the local governments shall do precisely as they please in respect to those matters which exclusively concern them.

The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.

When politicians and civil servants hear the word culture they feel for their blue pencils.