Quotes About Regulation

Two children—one male, one female—to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules.

Two children—one male, one female—to each family unit.

We're required to learn to swim but we're not allowed in the river," she found herself telling him.

The freedom to choose where to spend those hours had always seemed a wonderful luxury to Jonas; other hours of the day were so carefully regulated.

ATTENTION. THIS IS A REMINDER TO FEMALES UNDER NINE THAT HAIR RIBBONS ARE TO BE NEATLY TIED AT ALL TIMES.

children all received their bicycles at Nine; they were not allowed to ride bicycles before then.

ATTENTION. THIS IS A REMINDER TO FEMALES UNDER NINE THAT HAIR RIBBONS ARE TO BE NEATLY TIED AT ALL TIMES. He turned toward Lily and noticed to his satisfaction that her ribbons were, as usual, undone and dangling.

This evening he almost would have preferred to keep his feelings hidden. But it was, of course, against the rules.

By the time Miles had showered, groomed, and donned a fresh uniform and glossy spare boots, his pills had cut in and he was feeling no pain at all. When he caught himself whistling as he splashed on aftershave and adjusted a rather flashy and only demi-regulation black silk scarf around his neck, tucked into his gray-and-white jacket, he decided he'd better cut the dosage in half next round. He was feeling much too good.

Optimal sculpting of key neural networks through healthy early relationships allows us to think well of ourselves, trust others, regulate our emotions, maintain positive expectations, and utilize our intellectual and emotional intelligence in moment-to-moment

our ability to learn is regulated by how we are treated by our teachers, at home and in the classroom.

when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.

Laws are made to free people, not to bind them - if they are the proper laws. They tell each of us what he may do without transgressing on the equal liberty of any other man.

There's a saying that when guns are outlawed, only the outlaws will have guns.

He believed that "a day will come when the sexual relations will be regulated in every case by the private will of the parties. The public sentiment, then, or law, … will declare the entire freedom of every man or woman to follow the bent of their private affections, will justify every alliance sanctioned by these affections."31

The basic weakness with America's railroad system was overbuilding, which forced the roads into endless rounds of rate cuts and wage cuts to service debt. At the same time, the massive power of their largest consumers—notably Rockefeller in oil and Carnegie in steel—forced them to grant preferential rebates to big shippers, enraging small western farmers and businessmen and stimulating calls for government regulation.

It was in the last-minute effort to halt Tidewater that Standard Oil first resorted to the wholesale bribery of state legislators.

Standard Oil had taught the American public an important but paradoxical lesson: Free markets, if left completely to their own devices, can wind up terribly unfree. Competitive capitalism did not exist in a state of nature but had to be defined or restrained by law.

control the flow of gold into and out of the United States.

He preferred compromise to antitrust cases, which were slow, time-consuming, and fiendishly difficult to win.

Rockefeller was still held responsible for the sins of Standard Oil

Pierpont feared a replication of the railroad chaos, with overbuilding and price wars.

U.S. Steel had pushed Frank Kellogg to target Standard Oil so as to deflect heat from itself.

Congress could, at any time, limit how the foundation money was spent.