Quotes about Regulation
the Jews bound themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should not fail to celebrate these two days at the appointed time each and every year, according to their regulation.
— Esther 9:27
They must not shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but must carefully trim their hair.
— Ezekiel 44:20
he is no longer permitted to do anything for his father or mother.
— Mark 7:12
because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.
— Romans 4:15
Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,
— 1 Peter 2:13
You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes.
— Ronald Reagan
Nothing vague, idle, or purely speculative, is to occupy man in the retreat. He comes to learn to conquer himself; to free himself from evil passions; to reform the disorder, great or little, of his past life, and to regulate it for the future by a plan conformable to the Divine will.
— Ignatius of Loyola
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
— Virginia Woolf
Studies consistently show that when a school requires its students to wear school uniforms, or even just has a dress code, grades rise and violence declines.
— Dennis Prager
Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.
— Ronald Reagan
Oh no, no, a state that adopts Common Core must adopt in its totality the Common Core and can only add 15 percent." It was then that I realized that this initiative, which had been constantly portrayed as state led and voluntary, was really about control.
— Glenn Beck
the Catholic Church not only didn't oppose abortion but actually regulated it until the mid-nineteenth century. It was made a mortal sin mostly for population reasons.8 Napoleon III wanted more soldiers, and Pope Pius IX wanted all the teaching positions in the French schools—plus the doctrine of papal infallibility—so they traded. Also
— Gloria Steinem