Regulation Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• 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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• The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Self, Might, Pay

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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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• 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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• In nations that have become too complex, taxes and regulation cause at least a doubling of the amount employers must spend on labor. Many experts call this 'progress,' but the natural result is that many companies respond by sending their operations and jobs to less costly nations.

  Oliver DeMille

  Jobs, Progress, Experts

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• The best thing government can do now is get out of the way and let small businesses innovate, hire and grow. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen unless Washington stops increasing regulations, taxes and other blocks to business growth.

  Oliver DeMille

  Block, Government, Growth

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• Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

  Swings, Needs, Trends

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.

  Kevin Brady

  Strong, Climate, Taxes

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• Nations are an historic reality in Europe. They all have different histories, and they joined the EU at very different times and under widely differing circumstances. I was mayor of Warsaw for three years and always in favor of Poland joining the EU. But I also experienced how we had to implement EU regulations that were completely inappropriate to our situation.

  Lech Kaczynski

  Reality, Years, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You can't overestimate what happens when you encourage regulators to believe that the goal of regulation is not to regulate.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Believe, Goal, Happens

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• Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.

  John Dewey

  Consciousness, Individual, Social

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (2008). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.93, SIU Press

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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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• We've got to get rid of this discrimination, this chilling, this bigotry toward gays and lesbians that are reflected in literally hundreds and hundreds of statutes and regulations in this country.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Gay, Chill

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• Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Doe, Culture, Lawyer

  Lawrence Lessig (2016). “Free Culture”, p.257, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Creativity, Law, Copying

  Keynote address at the Open Source Convention, July 24, 2002.

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• Inappropriate macro economic policies in some economies, characterised by [a] low savings rate and high consumption [and] failure of financial supervision and regulation to keep up with innovation which allowed financial derivatives to spread.

  Wen Jiabao

  Innovation, Saving, Derivatives

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