Top 100 Quotes About Governed
#1. This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other.
Wilfrid Laurier
#2. Quite apart from anything else, the rule of money sees to it that we shall be governed largely by the old - that is, by people utterly unable to grasp what age they are living in or what enemy they are fighting.
George Orwell
#3. 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
#4. From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations stand forth full grown and self-governed, the law of coherence and continuity in political development has suffered no serious breach.
Woodrow Wilson
#5. Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas? Now, thoughts and ideas, that interests me.
Margaret Thatcher
#6. When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#7. We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility
William Hazlitt
#8. A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people. He needs to understand that the performance of anyone is governed largely by the system that he works in, the responsibility of management.
W. Edwards Deming
#9. Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
Alexander Hamilton
#10. A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed,
nor attempts to govern others.
Jean De La Bruyere
#11. Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.
Ernst Haeckel
#13. Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.
Antonin Scalia
#14. Only six people in the entire Galaxy understood the principle on which the Galaxy was governed, and they knew that once Zaphod Beeblebrox had announced his intention to run as President it was more or less a fait accompli: he was ideal presidency fodder.*
Douglas Adams
#15. Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
Isabel Allende
#16. Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.
Howard Schultz
#17. Passion of any sort is seldom governed by the rules of etiquette.
Nayantara Sahgal
#18. I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
Twyla Tharp
#19. hadrons" - a collective term used by physicists for protons, neutrons and other particles governed by the strong nuclear force.
Bill Bryson
#20. Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
David Hume
#21. 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
#22. I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries.
Peter Ackroyd
#23. As you will come to see, much is governed by the Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules.
T. Colin Campbell
#24. When the people clamor to be shielded from reality, when they praise their government for keeping things from them, when they choose to conduct their lives within the limits of whatever fantasy the government supplies, then they are no longer consenting to be governed, they are begging to be ruled.
Michael Ventura
#25. The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.
J.G. Ballard
#26. Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.
Stephen Covey
#27. Systems governed by only one set of rules are more vulnerable than those with variety.
Geoff Mulgan
#28. A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
Samuel Johnson
#29. Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.
Thomas Paine
#30. It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
Walter Bagehot
#31. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#32. It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.
Will Rogers
#33. The passing of four decades brought outward changes to John and Jenny that masked any recognition of one another. But matters of the heart are not governed by time.
Thomas Allen
#35. Limitless opportunities abound, governed only by your focus on achieving them.
Steven Redhead
#37. People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
Nicolas Chamfort
#38. And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#39. You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Voltaire
#40. A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.
Richard Wilbur
#41. The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much older notion: economic life is only one strand in the rich web of human relationships.
Frances Moore Lappe
#42. In all things and in all ways, choice impacts virtually every element of our life. It bears repeating that even those things which seem out of reach of our choice are governed by how we choose to perceive them.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#43. For Newton and the scientists of his time, God had set up the universe and set it in motion. Newton's laws simply governed the running of the universe. That is how Newton saw the workings of God and the workings of God's universe.
Evan Harris Walker
#44. Know that no one can have indulged in the Holy Writers sufficiently, unless he has governed churches for a hundred years with the prophets, such as Elijah and Elisha, John the Baptist, Christ and the apostles ... We are beggars: this is true.
Martin Luther
#45. No one imagines keeping the powerful low for long, apart from anything because if the peasants governed and the lords worked the land, everyone would quickly die of hunger, because everyone gets the hands they deserve.
Luther Blissett
#46. A life without goals is like flotsam that is governed by the tides and winds of fate.
Steven Redhead
#47. Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth
Bertrand Russell
#48. The word is clear only to the kind who on peak or plain, from dark northern ice-fields to the hot wet jungles, through all wine and want, through lies and unfamiliar truth, dark or light, are governed by the unknown gods, and though each man knows the law, no man may give tongue to it.
Stephen Crane
#49. If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever, it was the first generation that existed; and if that generation did it not, no succeeding generation can show any authority for doing it, nor can set any up.
Thomas Paine
#50. Rules, laws and codes become obsolete among the self-governed.
T.F. Hodge
#51. An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war is ever tending to revert to its crowd form. Our object in peace is so to train it that the reversion will become very slow.
J. F. C. Fuller
#52. If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.
Henri Poincare
#53. The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provides the strongest piece of evidence that we are governed by a fundamentally different Constitution from that of the framers.
Noah Feldman
#54. The economy is governed through cartel agreements and monopoly. The attorney general is the one who's controlling funds. There is no free business in Georgia.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
#55. We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Charles Darwin
#56. There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.
Constance Rourke
#57. Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Solon
#58. Religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every department of human conduct, or by the spirit of Puritanism.
John Stuart Mill
#59. I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.
Alan Siegel
#60. 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
#61. I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#62. Your brother is a beslubbering, churlish, hell-governed princox, and I hope one day he gets the beating he deserves for it. (Maggie)
Kinley MacGregor
#64. Social networks particularly will tend to converge and consolidate over time, especially because they're inherently governed by network effects. So the bigger ones will just get bigger, their value will multiply exponentially, and the smaller ones will become less and less relevant.
Clara Shih
#65. 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
#66. We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.
Nicolas Chamfort
#67. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.
Stephen Hawking
#68. Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell
#69. As a Republic governed through the utilization of a democratic process, elections are necessary in order to give every United States citizen a voice in the governing of this great nation.
Byron Goines
#70. that the city be governed by a choice of respectable members of the community who would promise not to give themselves airs or betray the public trust at every turn, was instantly the subject of music-hall jokes all over the city.
Terry Pratchett
#71. One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
- Plato
Sienna Wilder
#73. Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
Abraham Maslow
#74. Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is drawing ... it is the act that is most directly and spontaneously governed by his nervous and muscular system.
Rene Huyghe
#76. But really Legrandin had no need to remind people so often that he belonged to another planet when all his uncontrollable impulses of anger or affability were governed by the desire to occupy a good position on this one.
Marcel Proust
#77. Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.
Ian Stewart
#78. Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.
Karl Marx
#79. The reality that we live in is pulsating with energy and governed by laws. Understanding the basic principles of these patterns enables us to attract the things into our lives which we need and want.
Michelle Carbotte
#80. Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.
Jasper Fforde
#81. That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them.
John Yoo
#82. Now, if you believe that the universe is not arbitrary, but is governed by definite laws, you ultimately have to combine the partial theories into a complete unified theory that will describe everything in the universe.
Stephen Hawking
#83. I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.
Thomas Jefferson
#84. Each of the seven chakras are governed by spiritual laws, principles of consciousness that we can use to cultivate greater harmony, happiness, and wellbeing in our lives and in the world.
Deepak Chopra
#85. All too often a family's spending is governed more by their yearning than by their earning. They somehow believe that their life will be better if they surround themselves with an abundance of things. All too often all they are left with is avoidable anxiety and distress
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#86. I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.
David Starkey
#87. I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.
David McCallum
#88. Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.Aristocracy with the meaning - the best are ruling.Peoples do never govern themselves. That lunacy was concocted by liberalism. Behind its people's sovereignty the slyest cheaters are hiding, who don't want to be recognized.
Joseph Goebbels
#89. Politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.
Amelia Barr
#90. Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol; and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated when given absolute dominion. It is worse for the governor than for the governed.
William Lyon Phelps
#91. The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#92. The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.
Jim Gerlach
#93. At the time I could not see beyond the moral dilemma that is presented to the weak in a world governed by the strong: Break the rules, or perish.
George Orwell
#94. Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in war, and their condition not peace, but only a cessation of arms for fear of one another, and they live as it were in the precincts of battle continually.
Thomas Hobbes
#95. The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
Henry Fielding
#97. Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.
Thomas Jefferson
#98. The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.
Dick Thornburgh
#99. The lower you are on the pole, the more events seem to be governed by chance. Climb up a few steps and you realize that there's an order to the whole thing, the dice are loaded and the cards well marked.
Daniel Polansky
#100. We know we are called to act like quality men with urgency that is governed by clarity in the strength of the Lord. What remains is this matter of love.
James MacDonald
