{"quotes":[{"text":"Error of omission begets new rules.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["error-of-omission","laws","regulation","rules"],"id":4801,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"The internet has become a carefully controlled and heavily monitored illusion. It has turned into both a circus and battleground. Popularity is rigged and can be bought. Censorship is in full effect. Popular opinion is fabricated, and the perception of a viewpoint's popularity is typically orchestrated and manipulated by legions of paid trolls. If you want to know the truth about somebody's true popularity and influence, look to the streets. If you want to know if a person is really guilty or innocent, study the facts yourself. Never judge anybody based on what you see or read on the internet. Information can easily be manipulated by the push of a few buttons.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["battleground","biase","biased","buttons","censor","censorship","circus","control","controlled","corruption","democracy","fake","government","government-corruption","guilty","illusion","influence","influential","innocent","internet","judge","judgment","manipulate","manipulated","net","orchestrate","perceive","perception","popular","popular-opinion","popularity","public-opinion","regulated","regulation","silence","skewed","slanted","trolls","viewpoint","war","web"],"id":22199,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.","author":"Douglas B. Reeves","tags":["change","good","lead","leadership","mandate","morality","regulation","sustainability"],"id":43762,"author_id":"Douglas+B.+Reeves"},{"text":"But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity meta-morphosed antichrists into a single Antichrist, an apocalyptic villain and Christian bogeyman used to scare people as much as Santa Claus is used to regulate children's behavior. After years of studying the concept, I began to realize the Antichrist is a character--a metaphor--who exists in nearly all religions under different names, and maybe there is some truth in it, a need for such a person. But from another perspective, this person could be seen as not a villain but a final hero to save people from their own ignorance. The apocalypse doesn't have to be fire and a brimstone. It could happen on a personal level.","author":"Marilyn Manson","tags":["antichrist","apocalypse","different-perspective","fear","ignorance","marilyn-manson","philosophy","regulation","religion","religions","villain"],"id":59518,"author_id":"Marilyn+Manson"},{"text":"Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!","author":"Sarah Palin","tags":["drill-baby-drill","environmental-degradation","government","oil","regulation","united-states"],"id":80556,"author_id":"Sarah+Palin"},{"text":"Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is in huge demand but the supply is so limited to the point that the price goes up and up, look for the regulation that is causing it. This applies regardless of the sector, whether transportation, gas, education, food, beer, or daycare. There is something in the way that is preventing the market from working as it should. If you look carefully enough, you will find the hand of the state making the mess in question.","author":"Jeffrey Tucker","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-economics","austrian-school-of-economics","capitalism","economics","free-market","freedom","government","laissez-faire","liberty","markets","politics","regulation","socialism","state","statism","voluntaryism"],"id":107657,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker"},{"text":"We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.","author":"George Allen","tags":["innovation","regulation "],"id":118665,"author_id":"George+Allen"},{"text":"Whenever regulation increases, personal freedom decreases.","author":"Alan Wilson","tags":["personal","regulation "],"id":137645,"author_id":"Alan+Wilson"},{"text":"To appreciate how income taxation reduces prosperity form what it could be, imagine a 100 percent tax on incomes. We wouldn't expect much prosperity in such a society. People would have no incentive to earn money. They would devote resources to hiding the little they did earn. No investments would be made. No savings would exist to increase living standards. People's activities would be grossly influenced by the tax. If we lower the rate from 100 percent, the principle does not change. . . If you want less of something, tax it.","author":"Sheldon Richman","tags":["economics","income-tax","libertarian","liberty","regulation"],"id":143413,"author_id":"Sheldon+Richman"},{"text":"The answer to the drug problem is not criminalisation and incarceration, but education, regulation and treatment.","author":"Merlyn Gabriel Miller","tags":["addiction","drugs","regulation"],"id":155883,"author_id":"Merlyn+Gabriel+Miller"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}