Quotes About Regulation

According to economist Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, who served as assistant secretary of the treasury in the Reagan administration, Dick Cheney used his two terms as vice president to fill environmental agencies, including the FDA, with corporate-friendly executives. Jeffrey

OSHA's lack of law enforcement has made the USA a dangerous place to work.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

You must admit you have self-control before you can use it.

He who would govern others, first should be master of himself.

Don't steal, the government hates competition.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

But to a bureaucrat paper was never just paper. Paper was life!

It regulates what some consider the most private matters, such as human sexuality. Many people think that sexuality is their own business, but the Bible prescribes exact instructions and precepts on the subject, now exhorting and commanding, now forbidding and condemning.

Where there are laws, innocence need not tremble.

Trust is good, control is better.

Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.

Law, says the judge as he looks down his nose,Speaking clearly and most severely,Law is as I've told you before,Law is as you know I suppose,Law is but let me explain it once more,Law is The Law.

artificial security of the state and all its conventions and institutions

My kids are in front of the computer 247 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much.

Legislators need to support privacy to establish consumer confidence.

If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?

Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.

[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be rather a conundrum.

Human conduct can be regulated, and it will be regulated! The

When the church has occasion to set the rules for all society, it often veers toward the extremism

L'économie est également une invention noble quand elle a pour mission de réguler les liens et les nécessités entre les êtres humains et d'instaurer un ordre équitable à la satisfaction de chacun. Observée d'une façon plus objective, ce que nous appelons économie repose sur l'avidité et l'insatiabilité humaine avec un «toujours plus» stimulé par la publicité.

Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

The law is not concerned with making any one class in the city do outstandingly well, but is contriving to produce this condition in the city as a whole.