Regulation Quotes - Page 24

• for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.

  Vivian Gornick

  Self, Political, Feminism

  Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• They say that there is no reality before it has been given shape by words rules regulations. They say that in what concerns them everything has to be remade starting from basic principles. They say that in the first place the vocabulary of every language is to be examined, modified, turned upside down, that every word must be screened.

  Monique Wittig

  Reality, Vocabulary, Shapes

  Monique Wittig (2007). “Les Guerilleres”, p.111, University of Illinois Press

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• The old freedom sufficiently survives in the mind of the wage earner to give him the illusion that, while accepting insurance and maintenance from the capitalist state, he can still be a full citizen. He thinks he can have his cake and eat it too. He is mistaken. The great capitalists who procured these regulations from the politicians knew what they were at. They were catching their proletariat in a net, and now they hold it fast.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Thinking, Cake

  Hilaire Belloc (2009). “Essays of a Catholic”, p.13, TAN Books

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• We don't really have any that protect the food supply from farm to table. We have a food safety system that's piecemeal, largely divided between two agencies that don't talk to each other very much. Neither agency can enforce regulations from the farm to the table.

  Marion Nestle

  Agency, Two, Safety

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation of the press is the most difficult, dangerous and important problem they have to resolve. Mankind cannot now be governed without it, nor at present with it.

  John Adams

  Important, Philosopher, Problem

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.117

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• Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be.

  Matthew Kelly

  Rules And Regulations, Way, Helping

  Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.148, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• I've seen so many people in my life struggle tremendously to fit into those boxes or to live up to those expectations or pressures put upon them by whatever society's concept of 'normal' is. I get frustrated by rules and regulations. I'm frustrated by things that are exclusive to one particular life choice.

  Jennifer Westfeldt

  Struggle, People, Expectations

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.

  George Allen

  Innovation, Favors, Should

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• We need to cut regulations. Apparently this will make everyone a little more socially responsible?

  Kevin Drum

  Cutting, Needs, Littles

  The GOP Presidential Debate in Colorado, www.motherjones.com. October 28, 2015.

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• The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I've noticed that in whatever country, county, town, or other region there is a regulation enjoining temperance, the population seems to be entirely composed of teetotallers and drunkards. There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Next, Towns

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• The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but dont fix the underlying problems.

  David Malpass

  Powerful, Commitment, Swings

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• Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.

  Alfred Kahn

  Mean, Imperfection, Competition

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• Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!

  Donald Berwick

  Doctors, Decision, Limits

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• I used to be a businessman and I enjoyed what I did and I thought that it was socially useful. I don't have anything against business or private enterprise or capitalism per se, but I think that it is time to rethink the regulation of capitalism.

  Charles Ferguson

  Thinking, Used, Businessman

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I grew up in a Christian home. The strictness comes with religion in general. Whether you grew up Jewish or Orthodox Jewish or Muslim, there are certain rules and regulations. But my parents instilled in me the importance of defining God for yourself.

  Vera Farmiga

  Christian, Home, Parent

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• Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.

  Robert L. Bradley, Jr.

  Simple, Incentives, Process

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• You know, people like Hillary Clinton think you grow the economy by growing Washington. I think most of us in America understand that people, not the government creates jobs. And one of the best things we can do is get the government out of the way, put in reign in all the out of control regulations, put in place and all of the above energy policy, give people the education, the skills that the need to succeed, and lower the tax rate and reform the tax code.

  Scott Walker

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.

  Adam Smith

  Running, Hurt, Real

  Adam Smith, Laurence Dickey (1993). “Wealth of Nations (Abridged)”, p.95, Hackett Publishing

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• One of the principal factors fueling the proliferation of the abuse of secrecy and sensitive but unclassifieds is the administration's adherence to the unitary executive principal. This administration more than any of its predecessors believes that it is its responsibility to collect power onto itself in the executive office when it comes to the conduct of war, foreign policy, the management of agencies and departments, regulations, etc.

  Ted Gup

  War, Believe, Responsibility

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The existence of the EPA regulation will require large carbon polluters to look at their hole cards, and some of them have decided that they much prefer legislation.

  Al Gore

  Cards, Looks, Epa

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• There are regulations all over the spectrum that have to be done to the existing situation right now. But the only policy that makes sense is a nationwide moratorium: no new fracking, no new fracked wells.

  Josh Fox

  Fracking, Done, Situation

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• Women are networkers, women hate hierarchy and especially entrepreneurs hate hierarchy because when they see hierarchy structured in they see rules and regulations are commonplace, and they want to tear it down.

  Anita Roddick

  Hate, Entrepreneur, Tears

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Each human life hypothetically saved by implementing these [radiation] regulations costs about $2.5 billion. Such costs are absurd and immoral, especially when compared to the costs of saving lives by immunization against measles, diphtheria and pertussis, which in developing countries range between $50 and $99 per one human life saved.

  Zbigniew Jaworowski

  Country, Immunization, Cost

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• Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation.

  Bill Jenkins

  America, People, Taxation

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• Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.

  James Mackintosh

  Mind, Virtue, Mere

  Sir James Mackintosh (1836). “Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh”, p.411

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