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Quotes About Regulation

[The Clean Power Plan] is an important step toward curbing carbon pollution and addressing climate change.
~ Michael Bennet
This is politics. People in power never have to play by the same rules.
~ Richelle Mead
When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
I think if you do term limits, you would really increase the power of lobbying.
~ Tim Kaine
The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.
~ Tim Wu
Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response
~ Tom Allen
The corporate government is heavily influenced by the utility company cartel.
~ Steven Magee
Access to unlimited funds by a government, not surprisingly, leads to an unlimited government.
~ Orrin Woodward
Unchecked Corporate power leads to tyranny just like unchecked Government power.
~ J.Adam Snyder
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
~ William O. Douglas
Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor.
~ William Orville Douglas
In 1894 Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patents expired. Within a few years, over 6,000 local telephone companies were competing for the U.S. market.
~ William Poundstone
In 531, Tribonian authored a regulation that required that before any trial or hearing could begin, everyone, including litigants and officials, was obliged to swear an oath of Christian faith while placing a hand on a copy of the Gospels…a requirement made easier by another regulation that ordered a copy of the Gospels placed in every courtroom.
~ William Rosen
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
~ William S. Burroughs
A functioning police state needs no police.
~ William Seward Burroughs
I will make it felony to drink small beer.
~ William Shakespeare
The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.
~ William Shakespeare
there is no point in being either for or against "the free market" as such. The key question is: When is a market free?
~ William T. Cavanaugh
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.
~ William Warburton
Why do people attend the movies and go dancing? Because [327] they are empty. They do not have God as their joy. The reason I do not attend the movies is not because the church has a regulation against it. The church does not have a list of commandments against such things. However, although there is no such prohibition, I would not attend a movie even if you paid me thousands of dollars to do it. I have something better. I am filled with Christ and I have no capacity for anything else.
~ Witness Lee
If we partake of Christ as the real manna, we shall find it difficult to lose our temper....This heavenly food causes our lusts to be restricted. It also deals with our selfish ambition. On the one hand, the heavenly manna nourishes us and heals us; on the other hand, it eliminates the negative things in us. Because eating is such a crucial matter, the regulating of man's diet is another basic concept in the Bible.
~ Witness Lee
Y el tiempo no obedece a órdenes
~ Y?ko Ogawa
Nothing is more frightening than a law that has never been enforced. When the authorities want to throw someone in jail, all they have to do is suddenly arrest him for breaking a law that no one has bothered to obey yet.
~ Y?ko Tawada
blind obedience and unquestioning discipline.
~ David McKean