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Quotes About Regulation

Complete freedom is as much curse as boon; freedom within strict and well-defined confines is, to me, ideal.
~ David Byrne
I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.
~ David Frum
Let's say an unsavory app developer that's based in Pakistan utilizes an exchange that's based in Thailand to rip off an Arizonan who's using a wallet that was built in Spain, so they steal all of their Libra. And that, of course, is minted by an association based in Switzerland. So which law enforcement or government or agency in which country does the Arizonan call to seek his or her Libra and financial recourse in this situation?
~ David Gerard
What ultimately lies behind the appeal of bureaucracy is fear of play.
~ David Graeber
So: Police are bureaucrats with weapons. If you think about it, this is a really ingenious trick. Because when most of think about police, we do not think of them as enforcing regulation. We think of them as fighting crime, and when we think of "crime," the kind of crime we have in our minds in violent crime. Even though, in fact, what police mostly do is exactly the opposite: they bring the threat of force to bear on situations that would otherwise have nothing to do with it.
~ David Graeber
Banks are institutions to which the government has granted the power to create money—or
~ David Graeber
The end result was that, just as Socialist regimes had created millions of dummy proletarian jobs, capitalist regimes somehow ended up presiding over the creation of millions of dummy white-collar jobs instead.
~ David Graeber
So what are people actually referring to when they talk about "deregulation"? In ordinary usage, the word seems to mean "changing the regulatory structure in a way that I like.
~ David Graeber
I always wonder how banks manage to go bankrupt at all considering they can just make up the money, and especially, what is stopping them from lending money to themselves.
~ David Graeber
ÖrneÄŸin İngiliz liberalizmi devlet bürokrasisinin azalt?lmas?na deÄŸil, tam aksine yol açm??t?r; özerk bireyler aras?nda özgür sözleÅŸme ÅŸeklindeki liberal rüyay? mümkün k?lan hukuk görevlileri, sicil memurlar?, müfettiÅŸler, noterler ve polis memurlar? kadrolar?n?n durmaks?z?n ÅŸiÅŸmesine.
~ David Graeber
Police are bureaucrats with weapons.
~ David Graeber
Of the energies of the universe, none is greater than harmony. Harmony means the regulation of yin and yang."29
~ David H. Rosen
It reflected the belief that a largely uncontrolled capitalism such as existed in America might be ruinous for Japan, that without sufficient controls too few men would become too rich in too poor a nation. That would create intolerable tensions and divisions, so the state and the capitalists themselves had to regulate it.
~ David Halberstam
Planning and control are being attacked as a denial of freedom. Free enterprise and private ownership are declared to be essentials of freedom. No society built on other foundations is said to deserve to be called free. The freedom that regulation creates is denounced as unfreedom; the justice, liberty and welfare it offers are decried as a camouflage of slavery.35 The
~ David Harvey
The law always limits every power it gives.
~ David Hume
How can you turn a human relationship into something regulated by the state? How can someone be expected to commit themselves at the age of 20 or 25 to another person for the rest of their lives? Who knows what lies ahead or how the two will change in their attitude to life and each other? The whole idea is crazy.
~ David Icke
We also find anticipatory effects from another macronutrient, oral fat. People who chew and spit out real cream cheese on a cracker versus nonfat cream cheese (a.k.a. fake cream cheese) on a cracker have relatively large elevations in triglycerides measured in the blood plasma for hours after.13 This study suggests that whole body lipid metabolism may be regulated by oral sensations of fats.
~ David J. Linden
Money is a mechanism for control.
~ David Korten
Whoever occupies a territory imposes on it his own social system.
~ David L. Robbins
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
~ David Mamet
There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something."
~ Milton Friedman
There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.
~ George Gillespie
It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good.
~ Jesse Robredo