Govern Quotes
513 quotes by 391 authors
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
— Lord Acton
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I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.
— Antonio Banderas
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
— John Mason Brown
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To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
— Albert Camus
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To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Our attitude determines how we evaluate our life's experiences. They determine how we evaluate ourselves. They also govern how we look at other people. Are…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was…
— Joan of Arc
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Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.
— Laozi
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God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't.
— Charles Colson
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for…
— Thomas Paine
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The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from…
— Edmund Burke
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There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
— Thomas Hobbes
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Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant…
— Sun Tzu
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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
— Horace
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It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe, without the agency of a Supreme Being. It is impossible to govern the universe…
— George Washington
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Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.
— Cardinal Richelieu
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Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Govern Quotes
391 authors contributed a total of 513 Govern Quotes, led by these top contributors: