Top 1200 Consent Of The Governed Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

There is the work of great men and there is the work of little men. Therefore it is said, 'Some labor with their minds and some labor with their strength. Those who labor with their minds govern others; those who labor with their strength are governed by others.'1 Those who are governed by others support them; those who govern them are supported by them. This is a universal principle.

I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that no meant no, but that's it.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

Your longevity in the sport is governed by how you live in between the fights.

I try never to be governed by fear; that's how I choose things.

We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are.

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

We must be sure to be governed by inner principle and not outer pressure.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

As we exit the E.U., there must be a new approach to immigration that has the consent of the British people and is managed in their interests.

The proper thing to do would have been to first ask my consent before remixing 'Mungda.'

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.

We should collectively be talking to children - as young as kindergarten - about what consent looks like.

I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent....They are being conscripted.

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.

And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!

I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public.

A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.

All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

Most of you probably already know this but for those who don't, I was a bit of a trailblazer in the field of salacious photos released without consent.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

passion of any sort is seldom governed by the rules of etiquette.

Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

I ask unanimous consent that I be able to deliver a floor speech on immigration reform in Spanish.

The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.