Governed Quotes

He governed as if he felt predestined to never die

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Israel is a society governed by the rule of law.

— Ariel Sharon

Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.

— John Updike

The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

— Hugo Black

“I cannot be governed by what others seek.”

— Anonymous

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

— John Selden

Be governed by your calling, not your circumstance.

— Steven Furtick

There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

— Thomas Hobbes

“It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else. — Kwame Nkrumah”

— Iyanla Vanzant

Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap.

— Kimberly Elise

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed…

— Alan Siegel

All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a…

— Edward Snowden

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

— Thomas Hobbes

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

— Anonymous

“No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians…

— Mark Twain

It is not a happy lot being a princess in any country, but especially Japan in which every tiny aspect of one's…

— Kathryn Lasky

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

— Rebecca MacKinnon

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the…

— Anonymous

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave…

— Rufus Choate

The economy is governed through cartel agreements and monopoly. The attorney general is the one who's controlling funds. There is no free…

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage…

— Laura Wasser

In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still…

— Alice Morse Earle

This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have…

— Wilfrid Laurier

“Being the World’s Most Powerful Leader is Easier Than You Think One of my first executive orders was to impose a moratorium…

— Nancy Omeara

Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human…

— Levi Woodbury

Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that…

— Nawal El Saadawi

No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Morocco, all of the Middle East…

— Conrad Black

The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s,…

— Karen Abbott

The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is…

— Mike Crapo

God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God…

— John Piper

“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued,…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, censured,…

— Anonymous

Those are governed best who are governed least.

— Thomas Jefferson

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

— Golda Meir

Men still have to be governed by deception.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed

— Edward Snowden

Democratic government requires the consent of the governed.

— John McDonnell

Government governed least is government governed best.

— Thomas Jefferson