Regulation Quotes

“When some claim demarcation and “regulation”, others fancy “deregulation”, preferring foxes guarding the henhouse or chicken yards with free chickens and free foxes. Friend or foe, hen or fox, anyone can have a go. (“This far”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The legalization of marijuana is not a dangerous experiment – the prohibition is the experiment, and it has failed dramatically, with millions of victims all around the world.”
― Sebastian Marincolo

“It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersection, no fish, and no ducks. OK?

(Getting Control of the Frontier, Gainsville Sun, March 22, 1995)”
― Molly Ivins

“Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.”
― George Monbiot

“When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character. Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organize itself as a class, if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms, and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class.

In place of the old bourgeois society with its classes and class antagonisms we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“There has never been a 'war on drugs'! In our history we can only see an ongoing conflict amongst various drug users – and producers. In ancient Mexico the use of alcohol was punishable by death, while the ritualistic use of mescaline was highly worshipped. In 17th century Russia, tobacco smokers were threatened with mutilation or decapitation, alcohol was legal. In Prussia, coffee drinking was prohibited to the lower classes, the use of tobacco and alcohol was legal.”
― Sebastian Marincolo

“Error of omission begets new rules.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Regulatory compliance is critical to managing risk.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!”
― Sarah Palin

“The crash did not cause the Depression: that was part of a far broader malaise. What it did was expose the weaknesses that underpinned the confidence and optimism of the 1920s - poor distribution of income, a weak banking structure and insufficient regulations, the economy's dependence on new consumer goods, the over-extension of industry and the Government's blind belief that promoting business interests would make America uniformly prosperous.”
― Lucy Moore, Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties

“it can use laws, regulations, and outright coercion to come out on top: a determined government is always going to win the battle for currency supremacy, at least in the long run. Other transaction media may thrive, but the government currency will be at the center.”
― Kenneth S. Rogoff, The Curse of Cash

“The man whose public spirit is prompted altogether by humanity and benevolence, will respect the established powers and privileges even of individuals, and still more those of the great orders and societies, into which the state is divided. Though he should consider some of them as in some measure abusive, he will content himself with moderating what he often cannot annihilate without great violence. When he cannot conquer the rooted prejudices of the people by reason and persuasion, he will not attempt to subdue them by force; but will religiously observe what, by Cicero, is justly called the divine maxim of Plato, never to use violence to his country no more than to his parents. He will accommodate, as well as he can, his public arrangements to the confirmed habits and prejudices of the people; and will remedy, as well as he can, the inconveniencies which may flow from the want of those regulations which the people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but like Solon, when he cannot establish the best system of laws, he will try to establish the best that the people can bear.”
― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“Regulation has nothing to do with setting standards; it meant putting rules in place that worked in favor of a few.”
― Samanta Schweblin, Kentukis

“The hegemony imposes rules and regulation, the corrupted rule is that when imposing harshly on some people and ignoring others.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“The wonder was, it was there at all. It had been ruined so often, that it was amazing how it had borne so many shocks. Surely there never was such a fragile china-ware as that of which the millers of Coketown were made. Handle them never so lightly, and they fell to pieces with such ease that you might suspect them of having been flawed before. They were ruined, when they were required to send labouring children to school; they were ruined, when inspectors were appointed to look into their works; they were ruined when such inspectors considered it doubtful whether they were quite justified in chopping people up with their machinery; they were utterly undone, when it was hinted that perhaps they need not always make quite so much smoke. Besides Mr Bounderby's gold spoon which was generally received in Coketown, another prevalent fiction was very popular there. It took the form of a threat. Whenever a Coketowner felt he was ill-used -- that is to say, whenever he was not left entirely alone, and it was proposed to hold him accountable for the consequences of any of his acts -- he was sure to come out with the awful menace, that he would 'sooner pitch his property into the Atlantic'. This had terrified the Home Secretary within an inch of his life, on several occasions.”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

“Boeing is a classic example of what happens to a company when the general public becomes aware that it has serious quality control issues, safety problems, and a dangerous lack of government regulation.”
― Steven Magee

“A judge shall not bargain a thousand regulations from a person to deliver him one justice”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Spare the regulation and you spoil the corporation.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“The prevention of competition is essential to exploitation.”
― Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

“In today's world most people consider revolution as inconvenient, and regulation as injustice. So they get their frustrations out on the innocent janitor, and keep quiet in front of the corrupt bureaucrat.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

“The masses appear oblivious that there is almost no government regulation of corrupt and incompetent police officers.”
― Steven Magee

“The Christmas 2022 airline disaster can be traced back to a lack of government regulation of the industry.”
― Steven Magee

“Non-enforcement of government regulation results in reckless behaviors by those that know the system is flawed.”
― Steven Magee

“The defining feature of world politics post the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has been the rise of right-wing populists, who have disrupted politics. It wasn't meant to be this way. Conventional wisdom at the time was that the GFC would lead to the 'social democratic moment'. The theory went that in the aftermath of the GFC - an event which exposed the dangers of relentless deregulation and fuelled an already existing rise of inequality - progressive parties, with a preference for appropriately calibrated regulation and redistribution, would benefit. Like much conventional wisdom, reality proved otherwise.
Instead, it's been the right-wing populists' moment. The charlatans' moment. First, they disrupted their own parties, then they disrupted politics more broadly. (p.14-15)”
― Chris Bowen, On Charlatans

“Laws are Legitimate only when they are taken from Nature. Since human is a part of Nature, the regulations that impose restrictions on his behavior vis-à-vis other humans and Nature must be created by observing human nature and the laws of the universe.”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo, To Be Tried As A Jew

“Regulation requires more surveillance and those at the top will always have loopholes at their disposal. Regulation is not just a tool for the state to dampen the most extreme exploitation, but also a handy legitimization tactic for capitalist organizations to further entrench their power.”
― Joshua Dávila, Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It

“De vez en cuando, si pretendemos crecer y no estancarnos, debemos regular aquello que nos regula”
― Juan I. Fernández, Libertad para Gente Inteligente: De la cognición a la acción

“Everyone is in favor of environmental sustainability...until they have to pay for it.”
― Scott Irwin, Back to the Futures: Crashing Dirt Bikes, Chasing Cows, and Unraveling the Mystery of Commodity Futures Markets