Quotes About Regulation

Strange, mused the Director, as they turned away. Strange to think that even in Our Ford's day most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting. Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It's madness. Nowadays, the Controllers won't approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicating of existing games.

Novecento, tutto questo è assolutamente contrario al regolamento. Novecento smise di suonare. Era un ragazzino di poche parole e di grande capacità di apprendimento. Guardò con dolcezza il comandante e disse: In culo il regolamento.

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

The constitution shall never be construed...to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Isabel looked at her. "Five pieces? Isn't that the Government recommendation?" "It's none of their business," said Jamie. Isabel disagreed. "Oh, I think it is. If the Government has to pick up the bill when we get ill, then surely it has the right to tell us how to avoid getting ill in the first place.

Order is the key to all problems.

Designing a system for intrinsic responsibility could mean, for example, requiring all towns or companies that emit wastewater into a stream to place their intake pipes downstream from their outflow pipe.

we sometimes miss seeing that we can fill a bathtub not only by increasing the inflow rate, but also by decreasing the outflow rate.

kids whose brains have undergone epigenetic changes because of early adversity have an inflammation-pro-mot- drip of fight-or-flight hormones turned on high every day—and there is no off switch.

Most psychologists agree that a child has to develop a secure attachment with at least one primary caregiver in order to learn how to effectively regulate her own emotions for the rest of her life, and in order to learn how to become attached in a healthy way in adult relationships.

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

I'm not against the corporations. They are our wealth. But they are getting too greedy. I don't want to do away with corporations. I want them to make our cars, however, not our laws.

Breathing is one of the few involuntary actions of the body over which we can exercise voluntary control. That is to say, it is on the border-line between the regions of the conscious and the unconscious. The man or woman who can speak or be silent as he chooses is the individual who has self-control.

Three central themes, then, run through the chapters of this book. The first is that regulating Black women's reproductive decisions had been a central aspect of racial oppression in America.

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

No one here is allowed to die without my permission.

Could I pick some flowers for Miranda?' I asked. 'You cannot take these flowers,' said Zoran. 'They belong to the government.

Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.

Our desire for sleep, like our desire for food, obeys a law of satiation. The attempt to circumvent this law will cause impaired mental and physical performance.

We are currently living under a form of government that our Constitution was explicitly designed to prevent.

Unfortunately, it's not against the law in this country to drink yourself to death.

If it's true that bankers are paid too much, in other words, the solution is not to get into the messy business of regulating individual pay—as indeed the financial industry itself has argued. Instead, it is to make banking less profitable overall,

In the Arab world, censorship follows speech. In America, censorship precedes speech.