Quotes and Sayings About Regulation
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If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
-- Adam Carolla -
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
-- Adam Smith -
I'm a big fan of Bitcoin ... Regulation of money supply needs to be depoliticized.
-- Al Gore -
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I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.
-- Alec BaldwinSource : Source: www.npr.org
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It will be seen that the formula - 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' has nothing to do with 'Do as you please.' It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations.
-- Aleister Crowley -
Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.
-- Alexander Cockburn -
The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of.
-- Ami Ayalon -
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Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.
-- Anthony Kennedy -
You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.
-- Antonin Scalia -
The absorption of oxygen and the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs take place by diffusion alone. There is no trustworthy evidence of any regulation of this process on the part of the organism.
-- August KroghSource : August Krogh (1977). “Respiratory adaptations, capillary exchange, and reflex mechanisms: proceedings of the August Krogh Centenary Symposium held in Srinagar, Kashmir (India), October 11-15, 1974”
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If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.
-- Ayumi Hamasaki -
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Letting the free market do whatever it wants. That's not been historically how we grow. We have to invest in education, in rebuilding broadband lines and roads and runways, and it's important that we bring back American manufacturing and regulations to prevent consumers from being cheated.
-- Barack Obama -
They say that Japan's rigorous building codes and regulations saved thousands of lives over there. Or, as Republicans here saw it, it 'fostered a socialist, anti-business environment that's worse than being dead.'
-- Bill Maher -
I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.
-- Bob CorkerSource : "Corker: GOP erred on financial reform" by Victoria Mcgrane, www.politico.com. March 24, 2010.
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A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law.
-- Brock YatesSource : Brock Yates (2004). “NASCAR Off the Record”, p.126, MotorBooks International
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It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.
-- Cameron Mackintosh -
Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.
-- Cathy McMorris Rodgers -
It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse.
-- Chris AsplenSource : Source: therumpus.net
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I truly feel that if you understand yourself and set goals without the regulations and limitations others put on you, then nothing is impossible.
-- Christopher -
People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our national life by what they see as unnecessary rules and regulation. And they wonder what the point of it all is. Put simply, many ask 'why can't we just have what we voted to join - a common market?'
-- David Cameron -
In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the 'bottle' to enforce the powers that were available to them.
-- David PuttnamSource : "Post-Leveson, the press must become as accountable as the rest of us" by David Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2012.
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We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation.
-- Donald Alexander -
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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.
-- Douglas B. Reeves -
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
-- Edward Dahlberg -
The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.
-- Edwin H FriedmanSource : Edwin H. Friedman (2007). “A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix”, p.151, Church Publishing, Inc.
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Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances.
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky -
For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?
-- Eric TopolSource : "Why doctors need to embrace their digital future now". Interview with Thomas Goetz, www.wired.com. January 31, 2012.