When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character. Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organize itself as a class, if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms, and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class.
In place of the old bourgeois society with its classes and class antagonisms we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
Tags: oppression revolution communism socialism proletariat free-development political-power regulation
It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersection, no fish, and no ducks. OK?
(Getting Control of the Frontier, Gainsville Sun, March 22, 1995)
Tags: society government rules regulation big-government
Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!
Sarah PalinTags: united-states government regulation oil environmental-degradation drill-baby-drill
Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.
George MonbiotTags: capitalism conservatism regulation big-government deregulation small-government
Error of omission begets new rules.
Toba BetaTags: rules laws regulation error-of-omission
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...
Ayn RandTags: life causality liberty love reason wealth freedom society philosophy sex tyranny atheism america capitalism economics usa political-philosophy drugs crisis law government force slavery economy constitution trade jobs commerce rock-and-roll regulation pursuit-of-happiness volition individual-rights objective-law
The legalization of marijuana is not a dangerous experiment – the prohibition is the experiment, and it has failed dramatically, with millions of victims all around the world.
Sebastian MarincoloTags: drug drugs marijuana prohibition regulation cannabis drug-policy legalization marihuana psychoactive
There has never been a 'war on drugs'! In our history we can only see an ongoing conflict amongst various drug users – and producers. In ancient Mexico the use of alcohol was punishable by death, while the ritualistic use of mescaline was highly worshipped. In 17th century Russia, tobacco smokers were threatened with mutilation or decapitation, alcohol was legal. In Prussia, coffee drinking was prohibited to the lower classes, the use of tobacco and alcohol was legal.
Sebastian MarincoloTags: drugs alcohol coffee marijuana prohibition tobacco caffeine regulation legalize war-on-drugs legalization drug-user mescaline prussia
If the power to tax is the power to destroy, the power to regulate is no less so.
Markham Shaw PyleTags: regulation regulatory-capture rms-titanic
He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.
Baruch SpinozaTags: regulation
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