Cynical Quote by Andre Siegfried Download Open image “A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much.” — Andre Siegfried ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cynical People Thinking Wells
It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The democratic thought is based on that 'ordinary people' are suitable to rule themselves. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In whose delusional mind is democracy made 'better' by allowing wealthy people to control more of it? — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Government is not a person; it is hardly even a collective of people. Government is a system, and it can be a good system,… — Leslyn Lewis Copy Share Image
Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed atall. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well. — Andre Siegfried Copy Share Image
It is impossible to think of France except in terms of individuals. — Andre Siegfried Copy Share Image
There is a striking parallel between the spreading of germs and the spreading of ideas or propaganda. On the one hand we are dealing… — Andre Siegfried Copy Share Image
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be. — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy. — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business. — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
One of the weirdest things that happened to artists and art criticism was this moment when everyone got cynical and stopped believing in the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
