Rent Control Quotes

#1. If we don't like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds - and not just by arguing that, thanks to smartphones and social networks, we can create new, more efficient markets for matching short-term renters with tenants.

Evgeny Morozov

#2. The Austrian School came into existence when a bunch of Viennese rent-gouging landlords didn't want rent control on the rents they could gouge out of their tenants in old Vienna, so they hired a bunch of scribblers - and that's the Austrian School.

Webster Tarpley

#3. I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.

Lawrence Block

#4. Rent control, however, encourages wasteful use of space.

Henry Hazlitt

#5. Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities.

Assar Lindbeck

#6. Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.

Gunnar Myrdal

#7. Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

Larry Elder

#8. When the City of Goleta incorporated about 10 years ago, its founders took pains to exclude Isla Vista from the boundaries for fear that UCSB students would become enfranchised, take over the government, and enact some form of rent control.

Anonymous

#9. In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city-except for bombing.

Assar Lindbeck

#10. I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.

Shah Rukh Khan

#11. Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.

Ira Sachs

#12. I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want.

Julius And Ethel Rosenberg

#13. Should and should not's are the furthest form or non-reality there is even the best scientists can't track what does.

John Phillips

#14. Like literary fiction, mathematical imagination entertains pure possibilities.

Daniel Tammet

#15. This is hard ... Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.'
Josie & Ash

Maya Banks

#16. Attain to the place where no one and no thing can disturb you.

Lester Levenson

#17. For it is the function of consciousness not only to recognize and assimilate the external world through the gateway of the senses, but to translate into visible reality the world within us.

C. G. Jung

#18. To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#19. The things I have sold to film, I've sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt those works. Some things, I haven't sold to film, because I was less interested in having no control over the adaptation.

Warren Ellis

#20. People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

Felix Mendelssohn

#21. I'd practically groped her under the guise of helping her get out a stain, but still, she looked like she found me about as appealing as second-hand underpants.

L. H. Cosway

#22. but her body was fuller.

Betty Smith

#23. Let's forget the reunification, let's just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.

Joschka Fischer