Quotes About Regulation

To prohibit a great people, however, from making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and industry in the way that they judge most advantageous to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind.

First, in almost every part of Great Britain there is a distinction, even in the lowest species of labour, between summer and winter wages. Summer wages are always highest. But on account of the extraordinary expense of fuel, the maintenance of a family is most expensive in winter. Wages, therefore, being highest when this expense is lowest, it seems evident that they are not regulated by what is necessary for this expense; but by the quantity and supposed value of the work.

It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men, quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast.

Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favour of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favour of the masters.

And the regulatory agencies are not stingy with their words either. Consider this: The Lord's Prayer contains 56 words; the Gettysburg Address, 266; the Ten Commandments, 297; the Declaration of Independence, 300; and a recent U.S. government order setting the price of cabbage, 26,911.

The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be made manifest by the full complement of documents, files, veneered desks and cabinets - which convey the strict and inverse relationship between productivity and paperwork.

Thus, being dysregulated is not the same as being upset. You can be upset and still be quite able to make effective decisions, hold your tongue, or otherwise "control" yourself—manage to act in ways that help you achieve a better relationship, a better life, rather than simply escaping an unpleasant (or even awful) situation by doing something that hurts the other person, escalates the conflict, or, in general, makes things worse in the long run.

if we are able to describe the situation, what we want, what is happening, and legitimize the emotional process even when we do not like it, typically our emotional arousal will start the return toward a lower state of emotional upset and eventually back to normal emotional arousal

Behind gods, ghosts, and people squats the state, which asserts total access to both public and private space: the

Under British law, youre not allowed to fire a live round unless you are a qualified armourer. This is why the live game has to take place overseas.

Such is the nature of man-made laws: ignorant of the past and insensitive to the present.

Indeed, the idea of the economy as a machine, regulated by appropriate policy levers, took firm hold.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

By the time of the Revolution there was in each colony an accumulated body of slave law that did not so much establish slavery as acknowledge its presence, sanction it, and regulate its conduct.

It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control.

The NRA assholes will tell you that "guns don't kill people, people do." Yeah, Malone thinks, people with guns.

New York City has the strictest gun laws in the country but that doesn't make any difference because all the guns come in from the outside, up the "Iron Pipeline.

Los gilipollas de la Asociación Nacional del Rifle te dirán que «no matan las armas, sino las personas». Sí, piensa Malone, las personas que van armadas. (...) Ellos esgrimen la Segunda Enmienda y los derechos individuales, pero es una cuestión de dinero. Los fabricantes de armas, que suponen el grueso de la financiación de la ANR, quieren vender armas y ganar pasta. Fin de la puta historia.

Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.

The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

... protection of life is NOT a legitimate use for a firearm in this country sir! Not! That is expressly ruled out!

It's the rules!" he snapped. "They cage the animals at night! It's the rules.