(387 quotes found)
“. . . full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind, that, in other words, natural sexuality is the deadly enemy of mystical religion. The church, by making the fight over sexuality the center of its dogmas and of its influence over the masses, confirms this concept.”
Wilhelm Reich
“Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.”
Norman R. Augustine
“I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.”
Dan Quayle
“Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.”
William Orville Douglas
“The public would be appalled to know that there are no regulations governing the funeral industry, no standards. We know the vast majority [of funeral directors] provide the appropriate standards, but you don't have to.”
Bob Smith
“The best way to address concerns about mercury emissions from U.S. power plants is to leave the existing regulations in place. Sending E.P.A. back to the drawing board would only delay regulation of power plant emissions, not accelerate them, as Senator Leahy and others claim.”
Dan Riedinger
“Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.”
Friedrich List
“State regulation, state regulation”
Alexander Lukashenko
“It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.”
“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
Winston Churchill
