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Quotes About Regulation

Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.
~ Jessica Mitford
The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.
~ Noah Webster
Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.
~ Paul Ryan
Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.
~ Michael Moriarty
It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription.
~ Malcolm Potts
I think the less fracking there is, the better it is for the economy and society.
~ Michael Hudson
The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.
~ Vint Cerf
There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.
~ Andrew Vachss
For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.
~ Benito Mussolini
All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.
~ Meyer Lansky
Steroids are used in all sports.
~ Dorian Yates
The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.
~ George Foreman
Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave
~ Durwood Merrill
And why did we need both an SEC and a CFTC—which often battled each other—to regulate the securities markets? Was the profusion of agencies grounded in some underlying legal or economic logic, or was it mainly about turf? The main answer was political: If you have multiple regulators, you need multiple congressional oversight committees, each of which is a gold mine for political contributions.
~ Alan S. Blinder
there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon...
~ Aldous Huxley
Stability," insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.
~ Aldous Huxley
Yes, Mustapha Mond was saying, that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.
~ Aldous Huxley
Tenemos dos alternativas: por un lado, el hambre, la peste y la guerra; por otro, la regulación de los nacimientos.
~ Aldous Huxley
Optimumum toplum, dedi Mustafa Mond, buzda?? örneÄŸine göre kurulur; dokuzda sekizi su seviyesinin alt?nda, dokuzda biri üstünde.
~ Aldous Huxley
Imaginen la locura que representa permitir que la gente se entregue a juegos complicados que en nada aumentan el consumo. Pura locura. Actualmente los Interventores no aprueban ningún nuevo juego, a menos que pueda demostrarse que exige cuando menos tantos aparatos como el más complicado de los juegos ya existentes. -Se interrumpió espontáneamente-. He aquí un grupito encantador -dijo, señalando
~ Aldous Huxley
Occidente sólo permite el uso sin trabas del alcohol y del tabaco. Las demás Puertas químicas en el Muro se califican de tóxicos y quienes las toman sin autorización son Viciosos.
~ Aldous Huxley
Probably (for we are not yet certain) it interferes with the enzyme system that regulates cerebral functioning. By doing so it lowers the efficiency of the brain as an instrument for focusing the mind on the problems of life on the surface of our planet. This lowering of what may be called the biological efficiency of the brain seems to permit the entry into consciousness of certain classes of mental events, which are normally excluded, because they possess no survival value.
~ Aldous Huxley
My good boy!" The Director wheeled sharply round on him. "Can't you see? Can't you see?" He raised a hand; his expression was solemn. "Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!" Major instruments of social stability.
~ Aldous Huxley
A gramme is better than a damn.
~ Aldous Huxley