Quotes About Regulation

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

there is remarkably little support in economics for regulating information, knowledge, and cultural production through the tools of intellectual property law.

Anyone who has ever dealt with the tax authorities, the educational system or any other complex bureaucracy knows that the truth hardly matters. What's written on your form is far more important.

But we don't have much experience in regulating the ownership of data,

Anyone who has ever dealt with the tax authorities, the education system or any other complex bureaucracy knows that the truth hardly matters. What's written on your form is far more important.

Praeityje keli? informacijos t?kmei užkirsdavo cenz?ra. XXI a. cenz?ruojama užtvindant žmones neaktualia informacija.

Both politicians and voters are barely able to comprehend the new technologies, let alone regulate their explosive potential.

Standardisation was a boon to emperors.

When kings fail to do their jobs and regulate the markets properly, it leads to loss of trust, dwindling credit and economic depression. That was the lesson taught by the Mississippi Bubble of 1719, and anyone who forgot it was reminded by the US housing bubble of 2007, and the ensuing credit crunch and recession.

Modernity is a deal. All of us sign up to this deal on the day we are born, and it regulates our lives until the day we die. Very few of us can ever rescind or transcend this deal. It shapes our food, our jobs and our dreams, and it decides where we dwell, whom we love and how we pass away.

Technology is never deterministic, and the fact that something can be done does not mean it must be done. Government regulation can successfully block new technologies even if they are commercially viable and economically lucrative.

Modernity is a deal. All of us sign up to this deal on the day we are born, and it regulates our lives until the day we die. Very few of us ever rescind or transcend this deal. It shapes our food, our jobs and our dreams, and it decides where we dwell, whom we love and how we pass away.

It starts with campaign finance reform.

The sole means of ridding man of crime is to rid him of freedom.

It's a strange thing, we think that law brings order. Law doesn't. How do we know that law does not bring order? Look around us. We live under the rule of law. Notice how much order we have?

What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but in order for us to actually be free in our social interactions, there must be an extremely elaborated network of health, law, institutions, moral rules and so on.

In a best-selling book, 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs (reprinted nine times by 1935), a pair of consumer-advocate authors complained that American citizens had become test animals for chemical industries that were indifferent to their customers' well-being. The government, they added bitterly, was complicit.

our cells contain an epigenome that tells genes to switch on or off.

In all practically relevant cases, governments—or more accurately the individuals involved in governmental process—do possess the power to coerce.

As an Italian liberal, and anti-fascist, Benedetto Croce, put it in 1928, "Ethical liberalism abhors authoritarian regulation of the economic process [equally from the left as from the right, from socialism as from fascism], because it considers it a humbling of the inventive faculties of man."3 In

Probably all laws are useless, for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

April 19, 1943, issue of Life magazine. ". . . In dry states and in states where there is local option, the military faces the problem of bootleg liquor. Bootleggers cannot be regulated; legal dispenses can be regulated.

Forget about registering guns, register six-packs. Each can of beer takes you closer to shooting yourself in the foot.

There's nothing to get. It's the law. Skye's hold on her temper slipped. I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.