Quotes About Regulation

This doctrine vastly expanded judicial discretion and opened a loophole large enough to tolerate many trusts.

the government should rein in irresponsible trusts but not meddle with good ones.

Harper was strictly forbidden from enlarging existing departments or adding new ones.

This policy, which kept colleagues from defecting and forming competing companies, was one of many expensive extravagances that accompanied the creation of the monopoly.

Hamilton sketched out this phantom force in microscopic detail, producing comprehensive charts for regiments, battalions, and companies. In a typical passage, Hamilton was to write, "A company is subdivided equally into two platoons, a platoon into two sections and a section into two squads, a squad consisting of four files of three or six files of two."89 He assigned ranks to officers, set up recruiting stations, stocked arsenals with ammunition, and drew up numerous regulations.

Law and order are everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy.

Smoke alarms are compulsory in homes because they contain cameras and microphones wirelessly linked to the government. With poison gas capsules too, in case the government doesn't like what you're saying or doing.

You'd have the IRS so far up your ass you'd see them when you brush your teeth.

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Communism is like one big phone company.

Contrary to the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the nation's economy. The issue of legal ownership, they explained, is secondary; what counts is the issue of control. Private citizens, therefore, may continue to hold titles to property—so long as the state reserves to itself the unqualified right to regulate the use of their property.

A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide.

A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).

An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.

Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.

There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market.

Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-you may know that your society is doomed.

We need a price on carbon that accurately reflects its real costs on our society and our wellbeing.

The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation

The interventionist policy (big government) provides thousands and thousands of people with safe, placid, and not too strenuous jobs at the expense of the rest of society.