Quotes About Regulation

Legal, regulated voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide have far less potential for abuse, and when they are available, there is no need to make it easy for people to find out how to kill themselves.

There ought to be an ordinance that a man can't work for the same outfit as his wife; hell, even in the same city.

Politics is the enemy of a sound economic entity, he mused. New laws, harsher tax rates, meddling . . . and now this.

The big economic forces had managed to remain free, although virtually everything else had been absorbed by the Government. Laws that had been eased away from the private person still protected property and industry.

But heaven knows there are enough policemen about. They're like a plague of cockroaches. You can't move without stepping on them.

Facebook's obvious use case for a payment system was to be yet another source of personal information on users. Every regulator and commentator noticed this immediately.

Blockchains don't solve settlement and compliance issues — they're only more efficient if they can bypass regulation. Libra could only be more efficient than existing systems as long as it could dodge regulation, and none of its competitors could.

This all points to the real attraction of the project for Facebook. Libra isn't really for consumers — Libra is Facebook's call to arms against the very notion of regulation. Facebook wants to be too big to regulate, and lead the way for its Silicon Valley fellows to be too big to regulate.

After the past few months of the world heaping ordure on Libra

Liberty limited by law is the cornerstone of civilization.

Government-imposed loan standards precipitated a banking crisis, which was solved by a government bailout and control of the banks. As a result, little by little, fewer and fewer are making more and more banking decisions. Government

If you can't regulate your own emotional temperature, you'll regulate everyone around you to keep yourself comfortable.

It's safe to assume that by 2085 guns will be sold in vending machines but you won't be able to smoke anywhere in America.

I learned that people below the age of sixteen cannot deliver milk in the U.K., but I don't think I learned why. It was just one of those weird English injustices, like summer.

It's safe to assume that by 2025, guns will be sold in vending machines, but you won't be able to smoke anywhere in America.

From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.

You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal.

Disciplinarians thrive under chaos!

In government, you're not a writer, you're an administrator.

If it was possible for me to adopt, I probably would, but no one's going to let me adopt.

Airlines are one of the last things to be liberalized.

We weren't allowed to watch TV as kids.

I control my anger.

The role of money in politics is a major problem and particularly the role of unchecked anonymous money.