Top 745 Governed Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Hume's paradox does hold: power is in the hands of the governed. If they refuse to accept it, you're in trouble, no matter how many guns you have.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

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

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.

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

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.

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.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.

The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

To me, it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.

A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed.

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.

Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of social engineering.

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

The world is governed by personalities very different to what people that cannot see further than their eyes, believe

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection.

The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.

Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

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.

I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps

A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

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.

Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.

We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

The main factors in terms of how tiring a season can be are governed by the number of races and the length of time between the first and the last.

He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment.

Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment.

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.

George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.

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.

In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

I live in Realville, and my problem is that I'm governed by logic. And some of the claims that are made by people on the left just don't hold up.

In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.

I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

We live in this miraculous technological environment, and yet our human behaviour is still governed by basic impulses from prehistoric times.

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

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.

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.

True is the saying: 'In order to make the world tranquil and happy, the nation must first be well governed!'

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.

Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or by their desires.