Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Society would govern itself spontaneously if it didn't contain sensitive and intelligent people. You can be sure that they're the only thing… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
To me, governing is communicating. That facilitates the whole job because I can listen, I can hear what people have to say,… — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
I think it's just natural when you're governing, that it's not always easy to remain as pure in principle as you'd like… — Rona Ambrose Copy Share Image
I think when you're governing, it will become increasingly apparent that if you were to just eliminate trade deals with Mexico, for… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of… — George Will Copy Share Image
“The art of governing, Dickon, is that of making use of talent wherever you do find it. Trust is too rare an… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work. Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
There is a political process which we are trying to achieve through what is called the Vienna Group. That involves the establishment… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous… — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
I venture to claim two qualifications for the great office which I hold, which to my mind, without making invidious distinctions, is… — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and… — Thurman Arnold Copy Share Image
The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more… — Theodore Austin-Sparks Copy Share Image
There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that… — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
Today, the people are governing the governments. And when they begin to talk to each other, they are surprised, they can be… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Indeed I cannot doubt that there has been really one grand empire, or one Universal, one Pandæan, or one Catholic religion, with… — Godfrey Higgins Copy Share Image
“Autonomy is about being self-governing: being able to make decisions based on your own (and your family’s own) best interests. I had… — Anna Newell Jones Copy Share Image
All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
If democracy is justified in governing the state,then it must also be justified in governing economic enterprises, and to say that it… — Robert A. Dahl Copy Share Image
The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He's less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue,… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down… — Livy Copy Share Image
Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
