Quotes About Regulation

The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.

The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.

[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.

Stability, " insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.

The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.

A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

As Pierre Bourdieu signalled as long as two decades ago, coercion has by and large been replaced by stimulation, the once obligatory patterns of conduct by seduction, the policing of behaviour by PR and advertising, and normative regulation by the arousal of new needs and desires.

wish you could do something about the Australian tobacco industry,' said the Prime Minister gloomily, grinding the malodorous butt out in the ashtray.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Those exertions of the natural liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all governments; of the most free, as well as the most despotical.

Where wages are not regulated by law, all that we can pretend to determine is, what are the most usual; and experience seems to shew that law can never regulate them properly, though it has often pretended to do so.

In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.

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But this proportion must in every nation be regulated by two different circumstances: first, by the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which its labour is generally applied; and, secondly, by the proportion between the number of those who are employed in useful labour, and that of those who are not so employed.

Every such regulation introduces some degree of real disorder into the constitution of the state, which it will be difficult afterwards to cure without occasioning another disorder.

The market price of every particular commodity is regulated by the proportion between the quantity which is actually brought to market, and the demand of those who are willing to pay the natural price of the commodity, or the whole value of the rent, labour, and profit, which must be paid in order to bring it thither.

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Virtue is more to be feared than vice because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.