Quotes About Being Governed

#1. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others.

Theodore Roosevelt

#3. I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above.

Will Self

#4. Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Plato

#5. We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow.

Iris Origo

#6. In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

#7. The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.

William Shakespeare

#8. there is no wrath like the wrath of being governed by my own lusts for my own ends.

Anonymous

#9. If you think that you are living in a stupid country, you can be sure that you are being governed by the most stupid people!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.

Abraham Cowley

#11. One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
- Plato

Sienna Wilder

#12. All springs reduce their currents to mine eyes,
That I, being governed by the watery moon,
May send forth plenteous tears to drown the world.

William Shakespeare

#13. An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established
the bulk of mankind being governed by authority, not reason, and never attributing authority to anything that has not the recommendation of antiquity.

David Hume

#14. The Liberal party has always worked with multiple parties in the House to make sure we're being governed in the best interest of Canadians.

Justin Trudeau

#15. One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

#16. Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

George Bernard Shaw

#17. I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

Samuel Johnson

#18. Those who believe that the world of being is governed by luck or chance and that it depends upon material causes are far removed from the divine and from the notion of the One.

Plotinus

#19. Love is at the Center of our being, and the calm, continuous pulsations of life are governed by Love.

Ernest Holmes

#20. My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.

Thomas Huxley

#21. And above it all the butterfly effect. The sure knowledge that the entire life of a human being is like a single day in that human's life: unplannable, unpredictable, governed by the hidden tides of chaotic factors and buffered by butterfly wings ...

Dan Simmons

#22. When the conception of internal form is governed by edge, color appears to remain on or above the surface. I think, on the contrary, of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on, the surface.

Jules Olitski

#23. Religion humanizes this universe, makes us feel important and loved. We are not animals governed by uncontrollable drives, animals that die for no apparent reason, but creatures made in the image of supreme being

Robert Greene

#24. Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way - and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we're really good at politically any more.

Charlie Pierce

#25. The global empire being forged before our eyes is not governed by any particular state or ethnic group. Much like the Late Roman Empire, it is ruled by a multi-ethnic elite, and is held together by a common culture and common interests.

Yuval Noah Harari

#26. Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?

C.S. Lewis

#27. Let us not argue over our being labeled as either spiritual or carnal. If we are not governed by the Holy Spirit what profit will the mere designation of spiritual be to us? This is after all a matter of life, not of title.

Watchman Nee

#28. Ne of the purposes for which God instituted prayer may have been to bear witness that the course of events is not governed like a state but created like a work of art to which every being makes a conscious contribution, and in which every being is both a means and an end.

C.S. Lewis

#29. Because I'm a man who works, who knows what a human being is like inside, who knows that every human being has his worth, and who wants the world to be governed by work and not by opinions about work.

Wilhelm Reich

#30. Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#31. REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

Ambrose Bierce

#32. Being rule governed, I operate in a world filled with imaginary restraints.

Sue Grafton

#33. The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

Nikola Tesla

#34. Sometimes it is my impression that most politicians are still not aware of being under the control of the financial markets and are even governed by them.

Hans Tietmeyer

#35. If I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is being done, then I would not have the slightest doubt that I could govern much more effectively in their interests.

Lee Kuan Yew

#36. Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

Charles De Secondat

#37. Toleration means being prepared to accept opinions that you intensely dislike. Likewise democracy means consenting to be governed by people whom you intensely dislike. This

Roger Scruton

#38. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionaliti es or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#39. My heart goes out to DJs who are governed entirely by playlists. Being allowed the freedom of choice, that - for me - is what makes radio special.

David Rodigan

#40. It seemed as if the Internet was governed more by fear: the fear of unpopularity and uncoolness, the fear of missing out, the fear of being flamed or forgotten.

Jonathan Franzen

#41. The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

Plato

#42. Everything is governed by one law. A human being is a microcosmos, i.e. the laws prevailing in the cosmos also operate in the minutest space of the human being.

Viktor Schauberger

#43. As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#44. Democracy requires accountability and consent of the governed, which is only possible if citizens know what is being done in their name.

Glenn Greenwald

#45. It is not a happy lot being a princess in any country, but especially Japan in which every tiny aspect of one's life is governed by the most rigid rules of protocol.

Kathryn Lasky

#46. If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.

Washington Allston