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Quotes About Regulations

Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.
~ Stephen A. Douglas
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
~ Swami Sivananda
Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa.
~ Nicky Oppenheimer
A mathematician thinks in numbers, a lawyer in laws, and an idiot thinks in words.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
reality does not have the same closed and symmetric laws and regulations as games.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Indeed much of the work of investment banks in my day was to play on regulations, find loopholes in the laws. And, counterintuitively, the more regulations, the easier it was to make money.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts alone suffice them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most quietude to the external regulations of society. The thought suffices them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
We will just resent whatever cost and inconvenience the regulations impose, totally unaware that those precautions may have prevented a debt crisis or a real estate crash.
~ Charles Wheelan
It saddens me to see the entrepreneurial world in Brazil, because it's a misfortune to be a boss in our country, with so many labor laws.
~ Jair Bolsonaro
Oh, never trust a country That won't permit live poultry to ride on the bus.
~ Tom Robbins
The chief shortcoming of the old public services was the restrictive regulations and facilities—one-size-fits-all—with
~ Tony Judt
Capitalism, as it had emerged in the Atlantic world and Western Europe over the course of four centuries, was accompanied by laws, institutions, regulations and practices upon which it was critically dependent for its operation and its legitimacy. In many post-Communist countries such laws and institutions were quite unknown—and dangerously underestimated by neophyte free-marketers there.
~ Tony Judt
By their very nature, firstborns hate to make mistakes. They are careful and calculating and sticklers for rules and regulations.
~ Kevin Leman
During the lockdowns, a quasi-global relaxation of regulations that had previously hampered progress in domains where the technology had been available for years suddenly happened because there was no better or other choice available.
~ Klaus Schwab
Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.
~ George Hammond
Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar.
~ George Lundberg
If the terriers and barriffs (sic) are torn down, this economy will grow.
~ George Walker Bush
These limitations and restraints were laws. To be obedient to them was to escape hurt and make for happiness.
~ Jack London
Twins work really well in the industry because child labor laws dictate a baby, as an example, can only work for, like, an hour a day.
~ Cole Sprouse
Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.
~ Joe Biden
Health care organizations don't ask us to interface to every type of module because they understand that it could cause safety problems.
~ Judith Faulkner
In a typical situation, it's going to take pretty close to a year to get your location in, get your permits, and then get open.
~ Fred DeLuca